I've no idea. I will have to look into it carefully. The only use case I am aware of is performance. But that may just be ignorance.
Bill. On 3 June 2013 12:44, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 06/03/2013 01:41 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > >> Using plain malloc will incur a performance penalty on many versions of >> gcc >> > > Does that really matter for the configure script? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > mpir-devel+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<mpir-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/mpir-devel?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.