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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables
On 10/26/2016 04:30 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2016 04:56 PM, Rical Jasan wrote:
>> On 10/25/2016 09:15 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>>> +If this parameter is not set, the default value is set as 128 KB and the
>>> Should this be 128KiB?
>>
>> I don't think binary computers count with 10 fingers. At any rate, we
>> don't have any ibi's AFAICS:
>>
>> $ grep -Pi '\d[kmgt]i?b\b' manual/*.texi
>
> It's the other way around AFAIK, i.e. KiB == 1024 and KB == 1000. Looks
> like there are references to kB in code comments, so I'm fine with
> changing it to that, or if you want to be absolutely clear, I could just
> make it 131072 bytes ;)
As unambiguous as possible is best, so if you could fix the 2147483648-
and 4294967296-byte references too, that'd be great. lol
Rical