[fpc-devel] MemSize argument validity

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Feb 17 20:21:22 CET 2010


In our previous episode, Fl?vio Etrusco said:
> > Afaik fastmm does this on Delphi. Together with having barriers before and
> > after the allocation that are checked regularly to see if they are
> > overwritten.
> 
> I'm sure somebody "has to" have asked this before (maybe even me :-$
> ), but has someone ever tried to port fastmm to FPC?

No idea. I don't even know how much sense it makes.

Some stuff (debug format(traces), dll and packages stuff) is probably not
(or not yet) portable.  The license is incompatible etc etc.

Better improve on the current memory managers (2.4/2.5 default memmgr and
heaptrc)



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