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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:34:28 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.ca>, hackers@freebsd.org, gram@cdsec.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bug in malloc/free 
Message-ID:  <12843.874658068@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:22:04 %2B0930." <199709190652.QAA01100@word.smith.net.au> 

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In message <199709190652.QAA01100@word.smith.net.au>, Mike Smith writes:
>> 
>> probably a printf or other stdio function
>
>I *know* this. 8) I'm just trying to find the sucker.  The 'ddd' example 
>looked like it was spinning in abort(), which doesn't look like it will
>actually come back and call malloc() again.  In olden days, 
>if MALLOC_STATS was defined when malloc() was built, the stats dump 
>used fprintf(), but this is not the case with 3.x.

Some time ago abort() was changed to that it would call __flush(),
because some standard said so.  I still think this is unwise.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."



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