glibc bug mmap/malloc

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.com
Wed Jul 18 16:00:36 CDT 2001


Andreas Mohr <a.mohr at mailto.de> writes:

> I mean, come on: why did they bother to implement malloc() at all
> if the resulting architecture is THAT broken ?

It's not broken, it just doesn't play well with programs like Wine
that muck around with the process address space. But it's a perfectly
reasonable (if not optimal) implementation for "normal" Unix apps.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com




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