Subject: Re: Memory consumption in NetBSD 1.5 (ELF) ?
To: Hauke Fath <hf@Tangro.DE>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/06/2000 21:37:17
	Someone mentioned the malloc library had changed - you could try
	linking it with gnumalloc on both old and new to see if the
	behaviour changes.

	(Sorry - still no lightening bolts of inspiration :/

                David/absolute
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 19:15 02.10.00 +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> >         I dont have many thoughts at this point - you could setup a 1.5
> >         a.out system to confirm its not an a.out vs elf issue, but that
> >         would surprise me... Hmm - are the jikes build options and jikes
> >         source version the same on both machines?
>
> Yes, modulo any elf differences.
>
> I use Jikes 1.0.6 sources plus the Xwchar library from X11R5/contrib as
> NetBSD lacks wide char support in libc. IBM's configure script was horribly
> borken wrt. the BSD world, so I came up with an Imakefile which nicely
> takes care of the linker option issues. While I was in the mood, I also
> hacked up a BSD makefile, but I only used that at home, not on the i386
> machines in question.
>
>          hauke
>
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