Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/06/23/12:03:27
Hi All:
If I'm right malloc is wasting 4Kb each time we allocate a block >= 4Kb.
Malloc allocates one extra page and this page is simply wasted. I saw it when I
tried to allocate all the RAM in pages (after configuring CWSDPMI to allow it
because I were using 32Mb).
My questions are:
1) Is that correct? (To test it you can make some allocations of 4000 bytes and
check the free memory you'll see each allocation is taking 2 pages instead of
1).
2) Can we fix it in the distribution? Currently there are too much known bugs
in v2.01, as an example: my editor needs at least 3 patchs for libs to work.
3) What's the status of 2.02? The last snapshot is too old!
I know Nate is mainting an unofficial patched version but: Are these patchs
really tested? isn't that worst than having an updated beta version?
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