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Re: Perfomance of gc-simple
- To: Jamie Lokier <egcs at tantalophile dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Perfomance of gc-simple
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:43:26 -0600
- cc: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras at softhome dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers at delorie dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <20000506192433.B22700@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>you write:
> With the GNU library, you can use `free' to free the blocks that
> `memalign' and `valloc' return. That does not work in BSD,
> however--BSD does not provide any way to free such blocks.
>
> I guess this is easily forgiven because all the BSD systems provide mmap()
> anyway. But all Glibc systems do too, don't they? :-)
Actually, older BSD systems (4.3 era) don't provide a usable
mmap implementation.
jeff