RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Typesafe allocators

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> While reading through the sources, I noticed that you've already
> diverged from "kmalloc" to xmalloc, so I thought it worth trying a
> typesafe allocator (something I have long missed in Linux).

We like the concept of this patch (and the other two), but renaming
xmalloc to 'new' has triggered all sorts of c++ antibodies. In
particular, its hard to grep for 'new'. 

Can we just keep the xmalloc name but make it type safe, and add
xmalloc_array?

Thanks,
Ian


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