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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2002-07-18 15:00:07 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2002-07-18 15:00:07 +0000
commit35d29fcb08fadaf006561a058746b0fce76a6a74 (patch)
treeb42a59394f8ee7dc7c11f71ae2d45b1e1beb834b /libc/stdlib/malloc/free.c
parent3b1e82407a02aed6319c6686c5b06c2051a20cca (diff)
Miles Bader implemented a new mmap based malloc which is much
smarter than the old "malloc-simple", and actually works, unlike the old "malloc". So kill the old "malloc-simple" and the old "malloc" and replace them with Miles' new malloc implementation. Update Config files to match. Thanks Miles!
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+/*
+ * libc/stdlib/malloc-zarg/free.c -- free function
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2002 NEC Corporation
+ * Copyright (C) 2002 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License. See the file COPYING.LIB in the main
+ * directory of this archive for more details.
+ *
+ * Written by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+
+#include "malloc.h"
+#include "heap.h"
+
+
+void free (void *mem)
+{
+ size_t size;
+
+ mem = (size_t *)mem - 1;
+ size = *(size_t *)mem;
+
+ MALLOC_DEBUG ("free: 0x%lx (base = 0x%lx, total_size = %d)\n",
+ (long)mem + sizeof (size_t), (long)mem, size);
+
+ if (size >= MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD)
+ munmap (mem, size);
+ else
+ __heap_free (&__malloc_heap, mem, size);
+}