Re: [ros-dev] Using zones in NTOS

[Aliberti Emanuele]

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).

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