On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:10:26PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> 
> > Yes, MALLOC/FREE should only be used with fixed size
> > argument. It should never be used with variable size argument.
> >
> 	Would it make sense to change the macros to assert this?

How?
If you could 'assert' it you could force a call to malloc() instead.

I have my doubts as to how much these macros save?
Maybe I'll time a kernel build with them on/off.

I also suspect that replacing all the 'pool' allocates with
(a slightly modified) malloc() would be benefitial.

	David

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