Subject: Re: gc malloc, lint...
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com>
From: Alistair G. Crooks <agc@uts.amdahl.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/15/1995 00:44:36
> There's an ANSI lint out there which depends (if you have < 100 megs of
> memory) on a garbage collecting malloc. I think I've tweaked the malloc
> to Do The Right thing, but I'm not sure; does anyone know a good portable
> (within NetBSDs) way to find out where the data segment starts?
Try Hans Boehm's garbage-collecting malloc, available from:
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/gc/gc4.3.tar.Z
It's already ported to NetBSD/i386, and works - it's used as part of
the Sather compiler.
Cheers,
Alistair
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