how do you know 'free' freed?

[Charles Marslett]

In article <11313 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
.. In article <1175 at svx.SV.DG.COM> gary at svx.SV.DG.COM () writes:
.. >The correct answer is "malloc/free is somewhat broken in Sunos 4.0.1-3".
.. >This has been mentioned before, in a Feb. Sun Spots article - here it is...
.. 
.. That sounds more like a "buddy system" allocator working normally.

If so, it also sounds like an excellent reason to disallow "buddy system"
allocators.

The purpose of malloc/calloc/et al. is to keep us from worrying about this
stuff -- if the allocator throws us traps, it better be easily bypassed.

Charles
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