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Re: xmmalloc?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>
- Cc: gdb <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:16:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: xmmalloc?
- References: <ro14rcktgod.fsf@jackfruit.Stanford.EDU>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:55:14PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> Does GDB currently use xmmalloc in any consistent way? When writing
> functions that might call xmalloc, should I try to write versions that
> call xmmalloc instead and try to find an appropriate md to pass to
> them? If I don't do that but instead just use xmalloc, will anything
> bad happen? In particular, am I opening up myself to any new
> possible memory leaks, other than the ones that are, of course, always
> possible when calling xmalloc?
>
> Any background info on this would be appreciated.
I get the distinct impression that uses of mmalloc have started to
rot...
If this is not the case, could someone please summarize the advantages?
Otherwise, should we just remove it entirely?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer