On Tue Aug 10 13:20:57 1999, Todd Vierling wrote:
[..]
> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> 
> : BTW, maybe gcc could be switched to use our malloc() instead of gnu one.
> 
> Now that we're using the malloc adapted from FreeBSD, we should try this
> with all GNU tools; the only compelling reason to use the GNU malloc, from
> what I've heard, was its memory efficiency.

I guess you missed this:

>Module Name:    gnusrc
>Committed By:   mycroft
>Date:           Fri Jul 30 04:07:26 UTC 1999

Modified Files:
        gnusrc/gnu/libexec/uucp: Makefile.inc
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/cpio: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/diff: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/diff3: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/egcs: Makefile.inc
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/gas: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/groff: Makefile.cfg
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/gzip: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/ld.new: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/rcs: Makefile.inc
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/sdiff: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/sort: Makefile
        gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/tar: Makefile

Log Message:
Don't use GNU malloc() any more.