talloc
Simo Sorce
idra at samba.org
Mon Jul 15 01:14:02 GMT 2002
Tim, yes I'm going to modify the code to reflect just that :)
I wanted to have also a non talloc possibility, and just toght ot is
possible simply making a malloc instead of a talloc if the mem_ctx is
null.
:)
Simo.
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 07:54, Tim Potter wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:01:41PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
>
> > any objection into adding a function to talloc to import a previously
> > allocated memory?
> >
> > something like that:
> >
> > bool talloc_memorize(TALLOC_CTX *t, void *src, size_t src_size)
>
> Hi Simo.
>
> Isn't this going to cause horrible problems if you pass in a a piece of
> memory that has already been allocated by talloc? It looks like you
> must pass in memory allocated my mallloc() unless you want to have a
> double free happening sometime later. This will be very difficult to
> debug.
>
> > it would be useful to add allocated strings returned from another
> > function to a talloc context ... the only problem I see is the size one.
>
> Why not just use a talloc context for these allocated strings in the
> first place?
>
>
> Tim.
>
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Simo Sorce
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