[vorbis-dev] Re:

[Monty]

> Maybe the best solution is to provide a simple mechanism for people to
> plug in their own malloc libs. It seems clear that having people 'do it
> themselves', in terms of search-and-replacing malloc with their own
> allocator, isn't a very good plan, since it effectively fragments the
> source. Additionally, there's more than one person asking for it.

Ummm... A single #define at compile time does what you [and the others that 
have asked] want.

> There is some sort of configure script i assume? (i dont keep up,
> sorry). Why not have it so you could do ./configure my_conf or ./configure
> --target=my_conf, then generate a default conf file where some macro
> MALLOC() would map onto standard malloc, and let it be at that. Then
> everyone who wants this new feature could just create their new
> configuration file.

One group so far wants this, and they're a group looking at customization and 
specialized-use compilation anyway.

> It doesn't seem to warrant extended discussion.

No, not really...  We've already spent more time arguing than it would take to 
make the change.  I haven't made the change because I'm not convinced it's a 
good idea, not because it's hard.

Monty

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