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Re: [HACKERS] patch for memory overrun on Linux(i386)

Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl> — 1998-03-26T16:46:43Z

>
>Hi Hackers,
>
>it seems that Linux malloc, or better libc-5.4.23 malloc, is doing what is
>declared in the man page, i.e. returning "memory which is suitably aligned
>for any kind of variable". I have some malloc traces and all malloc results
>are aligned to double size (8 bytes):
>
I did the original Electric fence test using the libc version which
comes with redhat 4.0. I just upgraded my libc so I don't know
with version it was.

With greetings from Maurice.