Bob Relyea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> In a nutshell, arenas allow us to build tree linked data
> structures, allocating new memory as we need it, then free
> the whole thing with a single free.
>
> Something like arena's is pretty much required to parse a
> lot of ASN.1, but it turns out to be useful in other cases
> as well.

Is there any use of arenas to prevent leaking secure data,
for example an arena that allocates in non-swapped memory?


Just curious

JÃrgen

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