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-rw-r--r--extra/Configs/Config.in7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in
index 4f15ea021..81dc50482 100644
--- a/extra/Configs/Config.in
+++ b/extra/Configs/Config.in
@@ -329,8 +329,11 @@ choice
"malloc-simple" was written from scratch for uClibc, and is the
simplest possible (and therefore smallest) malloc implementation.
- It is rather dumb, and certainly isn't the fastest. But it is 100%
- standards compliant, thread safe, and very small.
+ This uses only the mmap() system call to allocation memory, and does
+ not use the brk() system call at all, making it a fine choice for
+ MMU-less systems with very limited memory. It is rather dumb, and
+ certainly isn't the fastest. But it is 100% standards compliant,
+ thread safe, and very small.
"malloc-standard" is derived from the public domain dlmalloc
implementation by Doug Lea. It is quite fast, and is pretty smart