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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free
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>>There is no way to calculate only a few bits per call since there is no
>>way to keep track of state.
>
>Wrong.  A signal handler can have a private static variable.
>
>:-)

Wrong :-).  Such a variable would have static storage duration, so the
usual restrictions apply - the behaviour is undefined if the variable is
accessed, unless it has type volatile sig_atomic_t and the access is an
assignment.

Bruce