In the last episode (Dec 11), Jason Evans said: > On Dec 11, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Is there no way to make it an option for a while? that would get > > good testing AND a fallback for people. > > Unfortunately, there are some low level issues that make the two > malloc implementations incompatible, and they both need access to > libc internals in order to work correctly in a multi-threaded > program. The way I have been comparing the two implementations is > via chroot installations. It might be possible to make the two > compatible (would require extra coding), but since both of them need > to be part of libc, we would need a way of building separate libc > libraries for the two mallocs. This all seems uglier than it's worth > to me. Maybe there's another way... I have had good results by simply compiling malloc.c into a shared library and loading it via LD_PRELOAD. Works enough to run mozilla at least. -- Dan Nelson dnelson_at_allantgroup.comReceived on Mon Dec 12 2005 - 01:03:26 UTC
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