Re: quick malloc guard patch

2005-06-06 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Ted Unangst wrote: it is part of G. we will wait to see what effects it has. and now it's option P. for some apps, it interfered with normal operation too much. -- And that's why he won't get my vote.

Re: quick malloc guard patch

2005-05-25 Thread Janne Johansson
Jonathan Thornburg wrote: when malloc gets a request with a size equal to the size of a pointer, we can allocate a whole page, and return a pointer 4 bytes from the end. the four bytes allocated are useable, but don't touch the fifth or any later ones. (8 bytes on 64bit archs). Is the

Re: quick malloc guard patch

2005-05-25 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:17:59PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: [...] This would make all 4/8-byte mallocs take up one page(4k) each if I understand this correctly. That's fine for debugging, but probably too expensive for normal usage. I tend to agree. While most applications will