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Re: malloc attributes and realloc
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Cc: bkorb at veritas dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, schwab at suse dot de
- Date: 04 Jan 2004 18:39:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: malloc attributes and realloc
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <20040104171316.5D54CF2D61@nile.gnat.com>
dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
| My experience is that most application programmers have not fully
| adjusted to the commit-on-use world :-)
By commit-on-use, did you mean what is called "overcommit" in the
GNU/Linux world regarding memory allocation? If yes, then it might be
interesting to read about the long road they have taken from that
strategy to "commit-on-allocate" :-)
-- Gaby