1Readme for Octeon shared memory malloc
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3This malloc is based on ptmalloc2, which is the malloc
4implementation of glibc.  Source code and more information
5on this can be found at http://www.malloc.de/en/index.html.
6Please see the individual files for licensing terms.
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8The main change to the code modifies the way the malloc
9gets memory from the system.  Under Linux/Unix, malloc
10uses the brk or memmap sytem calls to request more memory.
11In this implementation, memory regions must be explicitly
12given to malloc by the application.
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