Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: malloc's and signals -- a dangerous mixture?
Message-ID: <1989Jul11.152731.22914@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1064@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <12571@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 15:27:31 GMT

In article <12571@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>Many people have researched better malloc implementations,
>usually for speed or better space utilization.  Has anyone ever
>tried to make a more robust implementation...

There was a paper at a Usenix a few years ago -- I think it was Portland --
comparing mallocs by several criteria, including robustness.
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