[889] in testers
Re: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 25 12:55:42 1990
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 12:55:20 -0400
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: John F Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John F Carr's message of Fri, 25 May 90 05:37:49 -0400 (EDT),
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 05:37:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: John F Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
It is not clear why emacs needs its own malloc; substituting the libc
malloc should fix this (make it dump core instead of hang).
There are two reasons why emacs uses its own malloc. 1) It's much
faster than the libc malloc (it's a power of two allocator), and 2) it
has hooks to warn the user when he/she is running out of memory so that
the user can save his/her files and exit emacs before it coredumps on
running out of memory.
- Ted
