On Thursday 29 March 2007 07:29, Steve Peters via RT wrote: > Of course, some well defined macros could assist in cleaning this up. > For example... > > #define PARROT_MEM_ALLOCATE(type) \ > (type *)mem_sys_allocate(sizeof(type)) > > I don't know the Parrot opinion of macros, but it would certainly make > the code cleanup much easier.
That wouldn't hurt my feelings. It really wouldn't hurt my feelings to use a macro for PARROT_MEM_FREE either; then it would be trivial to switch to a memory poisoning scheme that hopefully generates segfaults much, much earlier. -- c
