[PLUG] Malloc and Glibc

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:59, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> [ Move to plug-devel ? ]

> I wonder if -D_REENTRANT does anything for "malloc"?  My
> "/usr/include/malloc.h" contains, near the top:
> 
>   $Id: malloc.h,v 1.22 2002/03/12 21:58:54 drepper Exp $
>   `ptmalloc2', a malloc implementation for multiple threads without
>   lock contention, by Wolfram Gloger <wg at malloc.de>.
> 
>   VERSION 2.7.0

A quick look at the NEWS file shows that at release 2.3:

* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
  on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.