From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 21 18:26:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B0937B405 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F84B43F43 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:26:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0M2QK1e088689; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:26:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:24:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030121.192436.65876718.imp@bsdimp.com> To: bright@mu.org Cc: sam@errno.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alfre's malloc changes: the next step From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030122002340.GK42333@elvis.mu.org> References: <072d01c2c1a7$0fbba490$52557f42@errno.com> <20030121.165125.29485504.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030122002340.GK42333@elvis.mu.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20030122002340.GK42333@elvis.mu.org> Alfred Perlstein writes: : It's obivous that you either haven't even read or are too overwhelmed by : whining to considered my points. I think you are taking it way too personally. I told you exactly what I thought of the interface: It was not verifiably correct. : The old interface was a hack to "remind" people too stupid to RTFM/UTSL : about how the allocators worked. And they didn't work, there were still : mistakes. This "hack" makes it _impossible_ to make any of the mistakes : done previously. Your "fix" makes the same mistakes possible, but now : will panic()s instead of doing what was intended if not written. The old interface was a hack, as is your new interface. There are a lot of people that would like to make it less of a hack. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message