> Bash uses its own malloc implementation for unknown reasons (at least > to me).
Performance in some environments. > This implementation dates back to 4.2BSD (according to INSTALL) and > uses brk() which seems to be obsoleted interface. It is obsolete and not portable (man sbrk). Custom allocators should be based on malloc. > we have ecountered situation when brk(), as used by bash's malloc, > fails causing SIGSEGV in bash. The segfault is likely in libc (locale/findlocale.c) because it doesn't expect to run out of memory at the beginning of the program. Some other environments require --without-bash-malloc.
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