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Re: interesting change


On Fri, Jul 30, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> First, sorry for the broken patch I've added.  HJ's malloc patch was
> buggy and I haven't tested it before I added it.  It should be back to
> normal now.

There are some more problems with the your __libc_pagesize optimization.
The list of commercial applications crashing with this patch enlarges
every week.
It seems all of this application uses it's own malloc functions.

The both biggest Applications are StarOffice 5.1 and 
CA UniCenter TNG für Linux.

  Thorsten

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