Re: Design of 2.5

[Paolo Perego <p_perego@modiano.com>]

Il mer, 2002-07-03 alle 15:47, Jirka Kosina ha scritto:

> > developer I would like my kernel do some check against my malloc() -
> > free() mismatch... or I would like some sys_call to do a "garbage
> > collector" job like :)
> 
> malloc() and free() are purely library-calls, not syscalls. The library 
Sure, I know this :) People report me that *BSD kernels are able to
check against double free calls or free() called on an unallocated
pointer and common error like these... may be people report me wrong
things :)

> Garbage colletor is thing I personally hate sooo much - it allows 
> programmers to write unclean code, makes system quite slow (thus it's 
People already write unclean code :)

> quite inprobable it will ever go to kernel ;) ), because you have to build 
> graphs of dependencies between identifiers, etc.
A too many intensive performance penality? :?

Bye :)

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