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From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: questions
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Date: 19 Jun 91 19:17:36 GMT
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>  The 'malloc.c' supplied with perl patch 3 is generating this error
>when it finds it's header trashed on a free.

There is a long-standing SunOS 4.x bug where some libc routine, I
believe it's the gettimeofday stuff, mallocs N bytes but writes N+1.
This is coincidentally harmless if you use Sun's malloc.

So if you're building Perl on a Sun, you should use Sun's malloc.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu