[src/trunk]: src/doc Document archeological digs for our gnumalloc.

[christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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changeset: 342903:a7579ec80788
user:      christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Wed Jan 13 22:01:15 2016 +0000

description:
Document archeological digs for our gnumalloc.

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+Package:       malloc 
+Version:       1995-01-15
+Current Vers:  1995-01-15
+Maintainer:    FSF
+Archive Site:  ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/old-gnu/malloc.tar.gz
+Home Page:
+Mailing List:
+Responsible:   christos
+License:       GPLv2+
+Location:      external/gpl2/libmalloc
+Notes:
+The original version of gnumalloc was added (not imported) from
+prep.ai.mit.edu in src/gnu/lib/libmalloc in 1993. This is the newest
+version from 1995. It is written by Mike Haertel, and was distributed
+both standalone and as part of glibc. At some point glibc switched
+to use Doug Lea's ptmalloc which is now tightly bound with glibc
+and cannot be separated. The Doug Lea version of malloc is also
+distributed in a standalone form by Wolfram Gloger in
+http://www.malloc.de/en/.  We can consider switching to ptmalloc
+at some point since it will provide an alternative MT malloc, but
+perhaps this implementation should be kept anyway for historical
+purposes.
+
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