threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

[Anoop Kumar Narayanan]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> 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 :)
:) Oh yeah, BSD has its own libc
>
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