Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:24:36 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: bright@mu.org Cc: sam@errno.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alfre's malloc changes: the next step Message-ID: <20030121.192436.65876718.imp@bsdimp.com> 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>
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Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> 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
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