Re: Memory allocator semantics

Christoph Lameter
2014-02-10T19:08:04Z

On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> So to be completely honest, I don't understand what is the race in (A) that
> concerns the *memory allocator*. I also don't what the memory allocator can
> do in (B) and (C) which look like double-free and use-after-free,
> respectively, to me. :-)

Well it seems to be some academic mind game to me.

Does an invocation of the allocator have barrier semantics or not?