Michael Vance <briareos@...> writes:
>I'm wondering if it would be more useful to have a separate character
>for freed and newly alloced memory? Currently you use the same one,
>but I'd like to be able to tell if I'm looking at a piece of
>uninitialized memory, or a piece of memory that's already been freed.

It would. I actually tend to prefer a longword pattern to a
character, but that's just me. While it's not a big issue anymore, I also
have a preference for odd values, since on some processors odd addresses
which are used for word accesses will fault (which is a good thing).

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Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94)
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