Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #14507, comment 2


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Jul 8, 2023, 9:14:25 AM (11 months ago)
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  • Ticket #14507, comment 2

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    99If I understand correctly, as long as you have an `MpalHandle` you can ask the memory manager for the size of the block. Because while `MpalHandle` is just a void pointer, it should still always point to a `MemoryItem`. But when there's just a raw byte pointer...? Probably not. The memory manager only keeps some meta data on each block it allocates, but doesn't actually keep track of them afterwards.
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    11 So the "ask memory manager for size" options is probably out.
     11So the "ask memory manager for size" option is probably out.
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    1313So what about increasing the size of the counter at the beginning of the block? Would it be enough to increase it to the size of `intptr_t`? We can still have it only ''use'' the first byte.
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     15Though there are a couple of places, particularly in `parseExpession()`, where I'm still not sure exactly what it's doing...