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task #4856: Submission of spmalloc - Stephan Peijnik's malloc

Submitter:  Stephan Peijnik <sp>
Submitted:  Thu 20 Oct 2005 03:21:46 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Wed 19 Oct 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sat 29 Oct 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  kickino Open/Closed:  Closed
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Fri 21 Oct 2005 06:44:41 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi,

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail containing detailed information about the approval.

Regards.

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Fri 21 Oct 2005 02:35:05 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Seems like I've missed adding the COPYING file, I'm sorry for that.

I have now made the needed changes and a new copy of spmalloc is available at the same place the old one was.

Stephan Peijnik <sp>
Thu 20 Oct 2005 09:52:55 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

At first, your project lacks a COPYING file. You can get one here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

At second, the address of the FSF has changed, and is now:

  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

Please update your license notices.

Updates versions of the GPL, LGPL and GFDL can also be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt

Please update the copy of the license (usually, the 'COPYING' file) in your package as well.

You can find some background and a possible migration script at https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3766



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Regards,

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Thu 20 Oct 2005 03:21:46 PM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
The project account will remain inactive until a site admin approve or discard the registration.


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Full Name:
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  spmalloc - Stephan Peijnik's malloc

System Group Name:
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  spmalloc

Type:
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  non-GNU software &amp; documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  spmalloc is aimed at providing per-module memory statistics for programs that use modules (dynamically linkable objects) for extending their features.

This is achieved by having an array of a structure containing pointers, memory sizes and the allocator module's base address.
Getting the pointer and the size of the memory chunk isn't that much of a problem but getting a module's base address requires combining a gcc-internal call and dladdr().
As the sentence above already suggests the code is specific to GNU/Linux  and/or gcc. It may work on other OS' like the various BSD flavours but that has not been tested yet.
It also adds some sanity checking to calls to its memory management functions immediatly abort()'ing the program on any error. This is done for several reasons. The two most important ones would be saving the user from data corruption (ie. when writing to a file) and helping developers to find bugs as free'ing an already free'd memory chunk will for example result in an abort().

However, it does not replace the system's memory manegement functions at all and indeed makes use of those itself.

The code is not a stand-alone library (but might be made one later on) but is meant to be compiled into any project using it.

The source code may be obtained from http://www.sp.or.at/spmalloc/ which contains a link to a tar-gz archive.



Stephan Peijnik <sp>

 

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