Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] malloc() in RT code considered not-so-harmful?
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 13:14:22 EEST
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:15:05 -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> It seems plausible that you could use this to safely allocate memory
> from RT threads. The only questions I have about its practicality are:
Its not my experieince that you usually need to allocate memory in RT
threads, the times when I've seen it done are mostly <generalisation>
bacuase of bad design, excessive OO-ness or lack of knowledge of
alloca(3) </generalisation>.
- Steve
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