Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:27:51 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@sw.ru>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DDB sysctl function Message-ID: <20021009222321.I4967-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20021009094616.GP57622@elvis.mu.org>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Maxime Henrion wrote: > What I meant in my previous mail is that you could malloc() these > objects instead of putting them on the stack. Also, you don't need > buffers that big since the size you need is bounded at max(sizeof(int), > TOK_STRING_SIZE), which is likely to be TOK_STRING_SIZE :-). ddb can't call malloc() or any other general memory allocation function, since it may be (and often is) invoked in the middle of such functions. ruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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