Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/05/07/16:57:41
> > The malloc that djgpp uses is the original BSD freed malloc sources.
> > I cannot use the GNU malloc because of the GPL. The current malloc
> > will only reuse a block if |log2(size+4)| is the same.
> Well, actually anybody could use GNU malloc. It would just mean that
> the resulting program would be covered by the GPL.
Correct. What I meant was that I cannot include gnu's malloc in
libc.a, since the modules in libc.a cannot be GPL. I decided long ago
to avoid GPL in the required parts of the development kit (crt0, libc,
go32, etc) to avoid automatically GPLing every application.
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