Re: PR/50087 CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR port-arm/50087; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: PR/50087 CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:10:05 -0400

 On Aug 9,  8:10pm, joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: PR/50087 CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib
 
 |  Oh, that's the use of sysctlbyname, which will internally call the
 |  getoid function and that's caching the result. It should be using fixed
 |  oids to reduce the startup overhead in general.
 
 We were thinking about fixing that, but then we wondered if it was the
 last one... And fixing malloc to be more robust was more expedient. But
 you are right; those should be using fixed oids.
 
 christos