Re: dl_malloc

[Jesper Eskilson]

Daniel Diaz <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Edmund,
> 
> The reason to not use the initial malloc is because it uses MMAP for big bloc 
> allocations and the MMAP adresses returned are not compatible with gprolog 
> address space (3 most significant bits should be 0).

Daniel,

There is a better solution to this. GLIBC has a function mallopt() which
can be used to set parameters for malloc(). One of the parameters is
M_MMAP_MAX, which sets the maximum number of chunks to allocate with
malloc(). Thus, the call

        mallopt(M_MMAP_MAX, 0)

disables all use of mmap() in malloc().

Regards,

/Jesper
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