malloc source code

Which is the purpose of running twice the code of malloc.c? I refer to the
following line of src/lib/ansi/malloc.c:

for (ntries = 0; ntries < 2; ntries++) {

I suspect it is a hopeless try of a process to allocate more memory from
another process that has just freed some

Christos

In article <1134139009.442951@athnrd02>,
Christos Karayiannis <christos@kar.forthnet.gr> wrote:[color=blue]
>Which is the purpose of running twice the code of malloc.c? I refer to the
>following line of src/lib/ansi/malloc.c:
>
>for (ntries = 0; ntries < 2; ntries++) {
>
>I suspect it is a hopeless try of a process to allocate more memory from
>another process that has just freed some[/color]

Are you sure that all that other code in the loop is actually a nop?


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