From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 09:12:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Add a memory pool library
Message-ID: <AANLkTiltqraEFzYohs_89VbJQsevQC3Yp5RYWSe4b3jd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100529090609.GA7247@progeny.tock>

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, like talloc[1].  How do they compare?

I've never used talloc. What basis can we use for the comparison?

> This makes functions with names like string_alloc(), which would then
> be un-greppable.  It might be nice (though certainly not necessary) to
> provide an overview in Documentation/technical/ so there is no need to
> find the definition of each function.

Definitely. On a related note, note that while compiling, a lot of
unused functions are generated which pop up as compiler warnings- I
haven't figured out how to suppress them yet, and I suspect Junio
won't be happy with them either.

-- Ram