4.2 malloc() on Suns?

[Prentiss Riddle]

In article <5079 at allegra.UUCP> jpl at allegra.UUCP (John P. Linderman) writes:
>
> 		 ...Another ``gotcha''  [in 4.2bsd malloc()]
>to beware of is that space, once allocated, is never broken
>into smaller pieces.  For example, if I allocate a 4 meg
>temporary workspace, free it, then allocate a 2 meg area,
>malloc will not reuse the freed space, it will try for a new
>area, and, thanks to the aforementioned quirks, it will fail
>with the standard 6 meg per-process limit.  Dunno if this is
>fixed under 4.3.

Does anyone know if this has been fixed in the Sun version of malloc()?

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