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From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: memalign (can it be simulated?)
Summary: are you sure Manx malloc does this
Message-ID: <5471@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 17:35:03 GMT
References: <0164.AA0164@julie>
Organization: The Binary Bin
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In article <0164.AA0164@julie>, mcr@julie.UUCP (Michael Richardson) writes:
> 
>   I have discovered that the Manx malloc is a fake - is uses a 40K
> arena which is allocated at run time regardless of how much malloc'ing

How did you determine this?  The source to Manx's malloc shows it calling
lmalloc which in turn calls AllocMem with the size of your request plus room
for a tag to allow the clean up routine to free it on exit.

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