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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] making emalloc a library function
Date: Mon,  8 Mar 2004 10:26:20 +0000
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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.