freebsd-ports/devel/libmalloc/pkg-descr
Jordan K. Hubbard d124e3dbe3 Fancy malloc lib with fast allocation time, extensive leak detection
and tracing, etc..  By Mark Moraes.
Submitted by:	moraes
1995-01-12 22:23:21 +00:00

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This is a complete set of memory allocation functions (malloc and
friends).
The allocator is small, fast and space-efficient.
It performs coalescing on frees.
It has hooks for profiling, tracing and memory leak detection.
It has very comprehensive and paranoid errorchecking as a compile
time option, enough to detect most forms of heap corruption.
Optionally, it attempts to be compatible with the proposed ANSI C
Standard definition for the standard library functions malloc(),
calloc(), realloc() and free(). By default, it is more or less
compatible with existing Unix malloc() functions - some
differences do exist. (Notably free(), cfree() returning void,
realloc() not accepting a freed block)