"" One large difference between C and most other programming languages is that in C, you have to handle memory yourself rather than having a garbage collector do it for you. Ensuring that memory is allocated at the correct moment is not very difficult (and something that needs to be done manually in pretty much every language); the hard part is to ensure that enough memory is allocated, and to ensure that the memory is deallocated when it is no longer in use.
There are several techniques available for memory management in C. Many of them are used in NetHack 3.4.3; and even more are used somewhere in NetHack 4. In this blog post, I'd like to look at them and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. I'm mostly concerned about correctness, rather than efficiency, here; that means that unless the performance difference is very large, I care more about clean code than I do about fast code. "" <http://nethack4.org/blog/memory.html> Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
