[PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@sourceware.org
Wed Oct 26 11:30:00 GMT 2016


On Wednesday 26 October 2016 04:56 PM, Rical Jasan wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 09:15 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>> +If this parameter is not set, the default value is set as 128 KB and the
>> Should this be 128KiB?
> 
> I don't think binary computers count with 10 fingers.  At any rate, we
> don't have any ibi's AFAICS:
> 
> $ grep -Pi '\d[kmgt]i?b\b' manual/*.texi

It's the other way around AFAIK, i.e. KiB == 1024 and KB == 1000.  Looks
like there are references to kB in code comments, so I'm fine with
changing it to that, or if you want to be absolutely clear, I could just
make it 131072 bytes ;)

Siddhesh



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