From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:35:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Aug 2 2007 15:06, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> On Aug 2 2007 16:04, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> >On 8/2/07, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> >> fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), ...); >> > >> >Key word is "traditional". Good traditional form which even half-competent >> >C programmers immediately parse in retina. >> >> And being aware of the potential type-unsafety makes programmers more >> careful IMHO. > >That's a _really_ good reason ;) Yes, a good reason not to use g_new(), so people do get bitten when they are doingitwrong. Jan -- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org