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- From: tim@introl.com (Tim Chase)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: AIX malloc and fault tolerance
- Message-ID: <188gh0INNi45@introl.introl.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 20:21:52 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.135156.9166@medtron.medtronic.com>
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- In article <1992Sep3.135156.9166@medtron.medtronic.com> sh0001@israel (Scott Hansohn) writes:
- >I have questions:
- > 1) Has anyone seen a system where static memory may not really be
- > there, or where a nonzero malloc doesn't guarantee the successful
- > usage of the memory?
-
- Yes, Apollo's Aegis version 9.7 behaved this way. In future versions,
- I believe they changed it to the more "traditional" method where the backing
- store is also allocated a malloc time, but I believe there was an (possibly)
- undocumented option to revert to the old behavior to satify those who
- wanted to use sparse arrays, etc.
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- Tim Chase Introl Corp. Milwaukee, WI USA
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