Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:00:41 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro. |
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On 1/8/07, Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> wrote: > > And as I explained, it can result in longer code too. So, why > > keep this value around. Why not re-initialize it to NULL. > > Because initialization increases code size.
And it also effectively blocks the slab debugging code from doing its job detecting double-frees. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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