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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce grub_malloc0()
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Pavel Roskin |
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce grub_malloc0() |
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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:41:37 -0400 |
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 17:22 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Pavel Roskin<address@hidden> wrote:
> > Even though it's a new function added to the core, its use makes
> > core.img smaller. And it makes modules smaller too.
> I like the idea even if function name is inexplicit. Do you have a
> better alterative?
I was thinking about it. Here are some ideas:
grub_malloc0 - good that "0" is there, bad that malloc0 is not a
traditional libc name. It's easy to scan sources for both grub_malloc
and grub_malloc0
grub_calloc - we would need two arguments (element size and element
number) to be compatible with libc. We could make it a macro expandable
to grub_malloc0 to optimize out multiplication. Still, having two
arguments introduces unnecessary choice to the caller.
grub_calloc with one argument - this break the tradition or replacing
libc functions with equivalents.
grub_zalloc - similar to Linux kzalloc and kmalloc. By zalloc is not a
libc function.
grub_malloc_cleared, grub_malloc_zero - too long and just as nonstandard
as grub_zalloc.
grub_0malloc - even more weird than grub_malloc0, and it's harder to
scan for both.
After having written that, I actually tend to prefer grub_zalloc().
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
- [PATCH 1/2] Introduce grub_malloc0(), Pavel Roskin, 2009/07/15
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- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disable lzo compression, lzma is doing its job just fine, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/07/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disable lzo compression, lzma is doing its job just fine, Robert Millan, 2009/07/18
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disable lzo compression, lzma is doing its job just fine, Pavel Roskin, 2009/07/19
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disable lzo compression, lzma is doing its job just fine, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/07/19
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disable lzo compression, lzma is doing its job just fine, Pavel Roskin, 2009/07/19
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce grub_malloc0(), Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/07/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce grub_malloc0(),
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