Re: Dynamic allocation in the predefined language environment

[Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>]

On 07/07/15 07:42, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:13:17 +0000, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> 
>> I need to store strings of unknown length. For security reasons I set
>> limits for the types of strings the software handles and I used
>> bounded-length strings to store them.
> 
> Why don't you use plain strings allocated in an arena pool? Usually this
> covers most of cases where you need controlled allocation of constant and
> semi-constant strings.

I could this, but then I would have to implement reference counting as
well or do manual memory management with all its disadvantages.

- Matthias-Christian