About memory allocation code ...

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Tue Jun 1 10:21:01 CEST 2004


Mathieu Deschamps <mdeschamps at mangrove-systems.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I got something something i cant get rid of. 
> In the src/lib directory, it holds memory allocations
> and relatives progs. Why are they redefined ? 
> I mean couldn't we use standard's definitions ?
> I've seen there are debug dumps mechanisms but 
> surely as in standard's def.?
>
> Could you enlighten me on this point ?

Consider what it means to be a stand-alone program on the hardware.
Consider why every kernel does the same thing.

Eric



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