Both are there for future possible optimizations. The "size" parameter would allow for much more space-optimized memory allocation than malloc() can offer (and I've also used it to trace memory corruption bugs once or twice).
The "t_symbol" field could be used to pre-determine data type conversions, in case the type system gets richer... cheers Miller On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:30:42PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > two questions: > > * what's the use of the size_t argument in freebytes? > > * what's the use of the t_symbol argument in outlet_new? > > thanks. > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard - t?l:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju > | Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montr?al QC Canada > _______________________________________________ > PD-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
