Re: [PATCH] Remove xmalloc-trace and sbrk

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:38:57 +1300

On 2014-03-17 07:26, Kinkie wrote:
> Hi all,
> the attached patch removes all references to xmalloc-trace and sbrk.
> The former is very rarely used, valgrind is preferred to trace
> allocations.
> The latter is basically useless to detect memory usage on modern OSes
> which
> use other means than brk(2) to obtain memory pages for the heap; it is
> actually deprecated on some OSes such as Darwin.
>
> Farm-build-tested.

+1. Please apply.

Amos
Received on Mon Mar 17 2014 - 00:39:02 MDT

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