RE: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> Isn't it true that most of the times we'll need to be worrying about
>> run-time allocation of memory (using malloc or such) as compared to
>> static.
> 
> Perhaps for C. Not neccessarily true for Fortran. I don't know
> anything about how memory allocations proceed there, but there
> are no `malloc' calls (at least with that spelling) in the language 
> itself, and I don't know what it does for either static or dynamic 
> allocations under the hood. It could be malloc like or whatever
> else. In the language itself, there are language features for
> allocating and deallocating memory and I've seen code that 
> uses them, but haven't played with it myself, since my codes 
> need pretty much all the various pieces memory all the time, 
> and so are simply statically defined.

Doesn't fortran shove everything in BSS to make some truly monsterous
segment?
 
M.

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