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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:05:34 -0400
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Namespace pollution
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Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:31:23 +0100
> > > From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> > >
> > > Charles committed a patch to src/libc/ansi/stdlib/malloc.c (revision 1.12) a
> > > while ago that forces 8 byte alignment using brk.
> >
> > Any reason that change couldn't use __brk instead?
> 
> No, we just need to get the prototypes right.  A #define brk __brk at the top
> would fix it.

nmalloc uses sbrk, nothing unusual, and always forces 8 byte
alignment.  In fact it is controlled by a #define.  
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