From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Allocators design flaw
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:44:25 +0200
Date: 2017-10-14T17:44:25+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ortbcq$1qki$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ort9sv$1oaf$1@gioia.aioe.org
On 2017-10-14 17:18, Victor Porton wrote:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> On 2017-10-14 16:03, Victor Porton wrote:
>>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>
>>>> When freed use the stored offset to
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> get the original address.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> As far as I understand, it will not work, because the C library I am
>>> writing bindings for may try to free an object allocated by me (or I my
>>> need to free an object allocated by the library).
>>
>> The last sentence describes freeing memory, i.e. for Deallocate.
>
> I again state that we need the C function *_free() to free memory. But it is
> impossible in your scenario, because you change the pointer to point to
> another byte of memory.
Re-read the last sentence of my response.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-14 2:53 Allocators design flaw Victor Porton
2017-10-14 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 13:52 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 14:03 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 15:18 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 15:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2017-10-14 16:42 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 16:13 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 16:38 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:12 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:20 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:24 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 15:17 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 15:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 16:34 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 17:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 17:24 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 18:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 14:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 15:14 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 15:42 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 16:29 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 20:07 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 21:26 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-21 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-14 8:02 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 13:59 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:35 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 15:11 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 15:56 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 16:22 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-29 16:01 ` David Thompson
2017-10-14 14:11 ` Victor Porton
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