From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:43:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Play safe and use the system malloc in FreeBSD.
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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
--- 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