threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri May 21 20:26:03 UTC 2010
In the last episode (May 22), Anoop Kumar Narayanan said:
> I think glibc uses asynchronous free, as in it doesn't free the memory
> immediately. So even though the memory is free'd its still part of the
> process's address space but present in the free pool and so it doesn't
> crash.
FreeBSD doesn't use glibc, so that doesn't apply here :)
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Dan Nelson
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