On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> What if we just agree that host machines have a lot of RAM, romcc is > not a long-running program, and life will be easier if nothing gets > freed. How much RAM are we talking about? It might be easier to > debug if nothing gets zeroed. Reasonable. You could at least try it. Use LD_PRELOAD and make free() a no-op :-) It's ugly but sometimes ... there are times when it's simpler to consume resources and keep in mind that on exit, they're freed (you'd be surprised how often I have to point out to people that doing lots of work to free memory before calling exit() has no effect on the system free memory -- "You mean the system can somehow free the process memory when the process exits?" -- I'm not kidding!) ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
