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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] making emalloc a library function
Date: Mon,  8 Mar 2004 10:26:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DfidnSiUBNxRm9HdRVn-ug@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03d501c40499$5672d490$67844051@SOMA>

boyd, rounin wrote:
>>Actually emalloc was mentioned in publications at least as early as
>>1984, in The UNIX Programming Environment.
> at basser we called it salloc(), back in 82.

And xmalloc() harks back to PWB, circa 1976.
My own malloc implementation supports throwing an
exception if you want to use it in a suitable
environment where that is the general scheme.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-08 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-07 11:32 Einar Karttunen
2004-03-07 12:56 ` David Presotto
2004-03-07 15:37 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-07 17:06   ` Rob Pike
2004-03-07 17:25     ` Einar Karttunen
2004-03-07 16:47       ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-07 23:05         ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-07 23:10           ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-08 10:26             ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2004-03-07 18:45       ` 9nut
2004-03-07 18:48     ` 9nut
2004-03-07 19:39     ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-07 19:34   ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-08 10:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn

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