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		olliej on May 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, wit... The C++ stdlib versions of vectors have different design goals, including a bunch of ABI constraints for very old code (things like the vector<char> specializations). Likewise there are questionable spec behaviors like unordered_map that specifies suboptimal implementation.

olliej on May 23, 2019 [–]

Follow on thought - what happens for operator new[]() in kernel space? Does it depend on a malloc (vs. traditional kmalloc)?

awesomekling on May 23, 2019 | [–]

It's currently ending up in kmalloc(). The compiler handles the new[]/delete[] element count and I don't ask any questions about how.

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