Re: MALLOC/FREE macro useage.

2001-09-03 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010902 20:23] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gersh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sys/malloc.h says that the macro versions of MALLOC/FREE are deprecated however they are used all over the place. I belive

Re: MALLOC/FREE macro useage.

2001-09-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010903 03:47] wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: The reason for the macro is that when the size paramter is a constant there's an evil trick that makes selecting the malloc bucket really cheap. That's not the reason. The size parameter

MALLOC/FREE macro useage.

2001-09-02 Thread Gersh
sys/malloc.h says that the macro versions of MALLOC/FREE are deprecated however they are used all over the place. I belive that they are cluttering and dont really have a purpose. Does anybody else agree? If I were to make up a patch for current removing all of them would anybody care enough

Re: MALLOC/FREE macro useage.

2001-09-02 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gersh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sys/malloc.h says that the macro versions of MALLOC/FREE are deprecated however they are used all over the place. I belive that they are cluttering and dont really have a purpose. Does anybody else agree? If I were to make up a

Re: MALLOC/FREE macro useage.

2001-09-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010902 20:23] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gersh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sys/malloc.h says that the macro versions of MALLOC/FREE are deprecated however they are used all over the place. I belive that they are cluttering and dont really have a