From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <d5e9cde4c4e0652dbbec48813809b9e9@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Wed,  9 Dec 2009 15:23:07 -0500
From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
In-Reply-To: <433ec0a046809e71f0a6e6f9d5a896e5@terzarima.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [9fans] port/allocb.c question
Topicbox-Message-UUID: adfd8384-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

I think it's just the idiom we adopted when we added reference
counting.