From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 3: 9:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACDBF37B71F; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 03:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2Q6n5600937; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103260649.f2Q6n5600937@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Anish A Patankar Cc: Mike Smith , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MALLOC In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:59:55 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:49:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi, thanks for the prompt reply. > I think I cannot use malloc and free as I am programming in the kernel, so > have to use MALLOC and FREE.The man page shows.. No, I just told you that MALLOC and FREE are deprecated, and you should use malloc and free. I meant it. 8) > But then it goes on to describe the MWAIT and other such flags.. > I mean i cannot make out the no. of arguments to be passed to MALLOC..and > what would they stand for.. Do you have any problems with understanding the arguments to malloc and free? We can help you there if you need it. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message