when it returns NULL to indicate failure, it will also free the memory
that was passed to it, if that was non-null.
This does not change the semantics of realloc.
A second commit will be done to commit the conversion of those places in
the code that can safely use this to avoid memory leaks when confronted
with low memory situations.
Beaten-to-death-but-finally-approved-in: -current
Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
Various cleanup from Keith Bostic
Reinstate calloc() as a separate funtion, in its own source/object file.
leave the manpage integrated with malloc.3 and friends. Too many things
were broken in this respect.
PR: 4002
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
Submitted by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bostic.com>
Various portability and stylistic cleanups.
Kill MALLOC_STATS & the 'D' option.
Fix the 'V' option.
Major overhaul of the man-page.
You milage should not vary.
Reviewed by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bostic.com>
Submitted by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bostic.com>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Various neat features added. More documentation in the manpage.
If your machine has very little RAM, I guess that would be < 16M
these days :-(, you may want to try this:
ln -fs 'H<' /etc/malloc.conf
check the manpage.
Performance is comparable to gnumalloc if you have sufficient RAM, and
it screams around it if you don't.
Compiled with "EXTRA_SANITY" until further notice.
see malloc.3 for more details.
