From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 20 02:34:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14401 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.cadence.com (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14396 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mailgate.cadence.com (8.8.5/8.6.8) id CAA14624; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807200934.CAA14624@mailgate.cadence.com> Received: from unknown(194.32.96.136) by mailgate.cadence.com via smap (mjr-v1.2) id xma900927266.014621; Mon, 20 Jul 98 02:34:26 -0700 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Duncan Barclay" To: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:34:11 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Let's close the door to "stack hacks" Reply-to: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <35B30D5C.D0D0B8E2@pipeline.ch> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Jos Backus wrote: > > > > As an aside, I believe this is one of the reasons Dan Bernstein (of qmail > > fame) uses his own routines to do file/char/string/memops instead of those > > provided by libc. What about ripping the dynmic string routines out of Tcl, these malloc themselves and provide a clean API for creation and deletion? Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message