On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 00:21:15 +0100 Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> wrote:
> As we are preparing for dynamic memory allocation, we need to be > able to handle holes in our malloc heap, hence we're switching to > doubly linked list, and prepare infrastructure to support it. > > Since our heap is now aware where are our first and last elements, > there is no longer any need to have a dummy element at the end of > each heap, so get rid of that as well. Instead, let insert/remove/ > join/split operations handle end-of-list conditions automatically. > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> Dummy element at end of heap could be helpful for purify/valgrind style verification that code does not exceed allocation.
