More detail about malloc-simple

diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in
index 4f15ea0..81dc504 100644 (file)
--- a/extra/Configs/Config.in
+++ b/extra/Configs/Config.in
@@ -329,8 +329,11 @@ choice
 
          "malloc-simple" was written from scratch for uClibc, and is the
          simplest possible (and therefore smallest) malloc implementation.
-         It is rather dumb, and certainly isn't the fastest.  But it is 100%
-         standards compliant, thread safe, and very small.
+         This uses only the mmap() system call to allocation memory, and does
+         not use the brk() system call at all, making it a fine choice for
+         MMU-less systems with very limited memory.  It is rather dumb, and
+         certainly isn't the fastest.  But it is 100% standards compliant,
+         thread safe, and very small.
 
          "malloc-standard" is derived from the public domain dlmalloc
          implementation by Doug Lea.  It is quite fast, and is pretty smart