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Subject: Re: [RFC] how to get the size of a malloc(9) block ?
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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The reason I wouldn't implement this is to avoid having code that
_relies_ on this behaviour in order to function or perform well.

Heck, it may not even be portable to other operating systems. Except,
Linux, I guess.


-adrian