On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Steven Rostedt wrote: > But a generic "malloc" or "free" that does things differently depending > on the size is a different story.
They would not be used for cases with special requirements but for the throwaway allows where noone cares about these details. Its just a convenience for the developers that do not need to be bothered with too much detail because they are not dealing with codepaths that have special requirements.