malloc options

[Ivan Voras]

Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
> On Jul 26, 2008, at 19:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
>> While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone quite
>> extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use it in
>> FreeBSD 7.X or later.  Its ability to expose bugs in this way was deemed
>> important enough that it is now used by other projects too.
> 
> while in general I like the new approach, this problem has been a 
> killer.  I did find a number of errors in my own code where I was not 
> allocating enough space for some things.  Those showed up instantly with 
> 7.0 and were easy to fix.

As Kris said, you can run the 6.x binary on 7.x with compatibility 
libraries. This is the worst long-term option but it *will* gain you the 
7.x kernel (with all its benefits like multi-CPU support, new drivers, 
etc.) with the old allocator from the old libraries. This will be hard 
to maintain but it will work.

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