At 05:04 PM 12/12/2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>At minimum we should be using plain malloc() until a
>better solution or the current one is finished, else
>right now we have a glaring memory leak for ops that
>need to destroy strings.
>
>Can't the current function be at least tweaked so it
>still rounds mem chunks but doesn't modify the starting
>address of the chunk. Is anyone actually even using the
>feature that this technique allows?
The only thing that needs the allocated alignment is some of the internal
pieces--the stack chunks and register frames, really. Everything else can
use a plain malloc. Well, mem_allocate, rather, which can be a wrapper
around malloc for now.
Dan
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