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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:46:59 -0800
From:      Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.
Message-ID:  <20010228084659.A26909@sharmas.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A9C9D11.854BCD5@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:39:13PM -0800
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:39:13PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> no, something specifically designed around kernel type of actions.
> declarations of "physical pointer", "kvm pointer" "User Pointer"
> for example, and being able to declare a structure (not 'struct') 
> and say "this list is 'per process'"  and have the list head 
> automatically in the proc struct
> without haviong to add it there.. i.e backwards from today..

Rumor has it that MS has several compiler extensions, just for supporting
their kernel. Some of what you say above could be built on top of the
compiler, declaratively. Language support works well in cases where writing
the same code by hand is tedious and error prone or down right ugly - like
several hundred if (foo = null) return blah checks.

	-Arun

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