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- From: pgainer@vnet.ibm.com (Patrick Gainer)
- Message-ID: <19920902.115037.808@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 14:50:39 EDT
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Buggy malloc workaround
- Organization: IBM - Toronto Lab
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- In <Btx211.2DD@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF] writes:
- >My problems with putuserattr() calls are, according to IBM, caused by a bug
- >in malloc implemented in AIX V3.2. According to the man page for malloc,
- >you can set the environment variable MALLOCTYPE to "3.1" and it will
- >use the older version of malloc.
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- >It's not clear whether this is to be done at runtime or compile time.
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- This check (of which malloc to call) is done at run time, and is keyed
- directly from the value of the MALLOCTYPE environment variable.
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- >-- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
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- Patrick Gainer
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