Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:10:38 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed addition of malloc_size_np() Message-ID: <20060325081037.GC703@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <62732.1143272796@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <44247DF1.8000002@FreeBSD.org> <62732.1143272796@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, 2006-Mar-25 08:46:36 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message <44247DF1.8000002@FreeBSD.org>, Jason Evans writes: >>=== Proposal === >>Add malloc_size_np() to libc, and provide the prototype in malloc_np.h: >> >> size_t >> malloc_size_np(const void *ptr); > >I'm for the concept, but wonder if it would be smarter to make it > > void * > malloc_np(size_t, size_t *) > >so we can do it in one go ? That restricts its use to malloc() wrappers. I can also see the benefit in a function trying to validate the size of an arbitrary piece of memory that has been passed to it. -- Peter Jeremy
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