Play safe and use the system malloc in FreeBSD.

Yes, performance suffers.  But that is better than
random core dumps.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20093

diff --git a/hints/freebsd.sh b/hints/freebsd.sh
index 479fa2b..937df2a 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/freebsd.sh
+++ b/hints/freebsd.sh
@@ -92,23 +92,10 @@ case "$osvers" in
        d_setegid='undef'
        d_seteuid='undef'
        ;;
-4.*)   # In FreeBSD 4 and 5 the system malloc is performance-wise
-       # VERY bad for Perl-- we are talking of differences of not
-       # one, but TWO magnitudes.
-       case "$usemymalloc" in
-       "") usemymalloc='y'
-           ;;
-       esac
-       ;;
-5.*)   case "$usemymalloc" in
-       "") usemymalloc='y'
-           ;;
-       esac
-       ;;
 *)     usevfork='true'
        case "$usemymalloc" in
-       "") usemymalloc='y'
-           ;;
+           "") usemymalloc='n'
+               ;;
        esac
        libswanted=`echo $libswanted | sed 's/ malloc / /'`
        ;;
@@ -263,7 +250,7 @@ EOM
 
        # Even with the malloc mutexes the Perl malloc does not
        # seem to be threadsafe in FreeBSD?
-       usemymalloc=y
+       usemymalloc=n
 
 esac
 EOCBU