From c66cf10894f033502b5a20b26d3df6b8a1a01e49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 06:45:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] clarify malloc_object_size state further --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d9bdb64..784d663 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -381,9 +381,9 @@ was a bit less important and if a core goal was finding latent bugs. size class regions interspersed with guard pages * Zero size allocations are a dedicated size class with the entire region remaining non-readable and non-writable -* Extension for retrieving the size of allocations with fallback [in-progress, +* Extension for retrieving the size of allocations with fallback to a sentinel + for pointers not managed by the allocator [in-progress, full implementation needs to be ported from the previous OpenBSD malloc-based allocator] - to a sentinel for pointers not managed by the allocator * Can also return accurate values for pointers *within* small allocations * The same applies to pointers within the first page of large allocations, otherwise it currently has to return a sentinel