Re: Static pools?

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:17:51PM +0000, Matthew Hambley wrote:
>...
> Simple. I want to create a mapping table which needs to exist between
> calls to the interrogation function. This involves parsing a file. I
> could parse the file every time the data needs to be interrogated (and of
> course that is what I will need to do if there isn't space to build the
> table) but that would require a lot of file access and a lot of time.
> Better to do it as infrequently as possible.

I'm not clear on why you don't just malloc the thing? If you want memory
from the heap, and want it for the duration of the process, then just use
malloc. I'm not sure that a pool will buy you anything.

> Thinking OO for a moment, what I want is a static member variable.

That's not OO. That's just another way to describe a global variable.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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