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 siz

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 p

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 r

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 m

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 to