[Asterisk-Dev] potentially nasty bugs in string pools usage

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:59, steve at daviesfam.org wrote:
> I worked on an OS once that used to move memory around under your feet in
> some circumstances.  It was all documented, but sheesh, it was a pain.

Ahh glorious PalmOS.

> Retrofitting that behaviour underneath all the existing code is a daunting
> idea.

It honestly wasn't that bad.  If you had the lock on the memory area, you were 
safe.  If you didn't have the lock, you simply used the new pointer obtained 
when you grabbed it again.  Not really all that different from standard 
locking issues in a concurrent-access environment.

-A.