Subject: Re: Many thanks and a new question...
To: None <cgd@pa.dec.com>
From: Eric Fischer <eric@fudge.uchicago.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/21/1997 22:18:10
> MALLOC is meant to be used in critical paths, where you don't want the
> extra overhead that a function call to malloc() might cause.

Are interrupt handlers considered critical enough to use MALLOC()
instead of malloc()?  Or even so critical that I should be avoiding
allocating memory at all?

eric