Great hack! Amusingly, version 7 Unix didn't even have a header file that declared malloc(). I noticed something similar with the old f2c code. It is about a

Great hack! Amusingly, version 7 Unix didn't even have a header file that declared malloc(). I noticed something similar with the old f2c code. It is about a decade older than Version 7, and came with its own malloc implementation. [1] Apparently some Unix still didn't provide a good implementation. [1] http://www.netlib.org/f2c/src/malloc.c http://www.netlib.org/f2c/src/malloc.c