Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:16:06 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, gersh@sonn.com Subject: Re: MALLOC/FREE macro useage. Message-ID: <20010902211606.I81307@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200109030123.f831Nda00552@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 06:23:39PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109021653030.86878-100000@tabby.sonn.com> <200109030123.f831Nda00552@vashon.polstra.com>
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* John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> [010902 20:23] wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109021653030.86878-100000@tabby.sonn.com>, > Gersh <gersh@sonn.com> wrote: > > sys/malloc.h says that the macro versions of MALLOC/FREE are > > deprecated however they are used all over the place. I belive that they > > are cluttering and dont really have a purpose. Does anybody else agree? > > > > If I were to make up a patch for current removing all of them would > > anybody care enough to commit it (Or care enough to not have it commited) > > Please don't. It would just create a bunch of new gratuitous > differences against the other BSDs. The reason for the macro is that when the size paramter is a constant there's an evil trick that makes selecting the malloc bucket really cheap. Please don't remove it. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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