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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Typesafe allocators

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 11:31 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > While reading through the sources, I noticed that you've already
> > diverged from "kmalloc" to xmalloc, so I thought it worth trying a
> > typesafe allocator (something I have long missed in Linux).
> 
> We like the concept of this patch (and the other two), but renaming
> xmalloc to 'new' has triggered all sorts of c++ antibodies. In
> particular, its hard to grep for 'new'. 
> 
> Can we just keep the xmalloc name but make it type safe, and add
> xmalloc_array?

Sure, if you prefer that.  I actually like "new", but the grep issue is
real.  I'll redo the patch.

I wanted to use talloc
( http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/junkcode/talloc/ ) but there simply
isn't enough dynamic allocation to make it worthwhile...

Thanks,
Rusty.
-- 
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman



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