[LLVMdev] malloc vs malloc

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Sun Jan 11 11:22:38 PST 2009


>> There is no good reason for malloc to be an instruction anymore.  I'd
>> be very happy if it got removed.  Even if we keep it, malloc/alloca
>> should be extended to optionally take 64-bit sizes.
>
> I'm curious. Do we want to keep the free instruction?

No, there's no reason to.

-Chris



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