static _int_malloc et al

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Tue Jan 7 08:54:00 GMT 2003


Roland McGrath wrote:
> The interface is
> trivially based on the canonical malloc et al interfaces, so I am not
> worried about whatever slight adaptations might be needed if the
> implementation changes.

Slight adoption?  Who can guarantee that every future malloc
implementation we might want to use uses the concept of arenas?  I
honestly think it's a big mistake to add such dependencies.

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