[ros-dev] Using zones in NTOS

Aliberti Emanuele ea at iol.it
Tue Oct 26 00:32:18 CEST 2004


Casper Hornstrup wrote:

>Zones are pre-NT4 APIs. Microsoft recomends using lookaside lists instead.
>Several ReactOS components use them (TCP/IP driver, storage stack and ntoskrnl to name a few).
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Thank you for remembering me that zones are absolete. This explains why 
they are implemented in ROS with macros.

Among obsolete kernel APIs, I found ROS code often uses ExAllocatePool, 
which is marked as obsolete in the DDK. They suggest tagging memory 
wherever you allocate a block.

Emanuele


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