RE: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

Martin J. Bligh
2005-11-07T20:58:38Z

>> Isn't it true that most of the times we'll need to be worrying about
>> run-time allocation of memory (using malloc or such) as compared to
>> static.
>
> Perhaps for C. Not neccessarily true for Fortran. I don't know
> anything about how memory allocations proceed there, but there
> are no `malloc' calls (at least with that spelling) in the language
> itself, and I don't know what it does for either static or dynamic
> allocations under the hood. It could be malloc like or whatever
> else. In the language itself, there are language features for
> allocating and deallocating memory and I've seen code that
> uses them, but haven't played with it myself, since my codes
> need pretty much all the various pieces memory all the time,
> and so are simply statically defined.

Doesn't fortran shove everything in BSS to make some truly monsterous
segment?

M.