From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 22:49:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11541 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:49:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA11530 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0z9k3R-0003HZ-00; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:48:05 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id XAA27519; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:48:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808210548.XAA27519@harmony.village.org> To: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 01:49:58 EDT." References: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:07:35 BST." <199808210107.CAA13727@awfulhak.org> <199808210107.CAA13727@awfulhak.org> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:48:46 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Garance A Drosihn writes: : If you're prepared for a particularly dumb request, how about calling : it reallocf or reallocnf ("and free") instead of frealloc? I keep : thinking "free alloc" instead of "f-realloc" when I read it. Besides, : it'd be nice if realloc and this new routine were alphabetically close : together... Hmmm. You may have a point there. Maybe reallocf to connote the order in which things may happen. I'll have to think about this... Since there is no code checked into the tree yet, it is a fairly easy change to make. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message