Is -lmalloc safe with g++ 2.95.3 and Solaris 8?

[Jonathan Eckstein <jeckstei at rutcor dot rutgers dot edu>]

Hello --

I am developing a large, compute-intensive C++ code on a Solaris 8
(Sparc) platform with gcc 2.95.3.  As my application runs, it
periodically prints a status line containing memory usage information
gleaned from the "mallinfo" function.  To get the code to link, I
specify "-lmalloc" at link time.  Recently, the code has been aborting
frequently, usually from somewhere in "free", but occasionally in
"mallinfo".  I tried removing the call to from the code "mallinfo" and
the "-lmalloc" from the link command line, and the application started
running fine again.

My question is: is it safe to link with "-lmalloc" when using g++ 2.95.3
under Solaris 8?

If not, that would explain why the application is going haywire.  If it
should be OK, then I have some subtle memory bug that only happens to
fatally corrupt the arena if things are linked in a particular way.

Please reply directly since I don't monitor this list.

	Thanks,

	   Jonathan

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