The overhead is not large, and it makes append much faster (O(1) vs O(n)).
It also will make a queue easy to add, which I need for a dissector I'm
writing...
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actual wmem_allocator_t structure. This simplifies the internal API and
deduplicates a few alloc/free calls in the individual allocator implementations.
I'd originally made the allocators responsible for this on purpose with the
idea that they'd be able to optimize something clever based on the type of
allocator, but that's clearly more work and complexity than it's worth given
the small number of allocators we create/destroy.
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recurring callbacks, I suspect most other potential uses will be once-only, so
make that possible, and improve the documentation on the remaining issues.
Also separate out the code into its own files and the testing into its own
test case.
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the behaviour emem has for seasonal trees, which is that the master tree
structure is not actually seasonal - it is permanent. When the seasonal memory
pool is cleared, the root node pointer in all of these permanent trees is set
to NULL, and the pool takes care of actually freeing the nodes.
Wmem can now mimic this by allocating the tree header struct in epan_scope(),
allocating any node structs in file_scope(), and registering a callback on
file_scope() that NULLs the pointer in the epan_scope() header. Yes, this is
confusing, but it seemed simpler than adding manual callback registrations to
every single dissector that currently uses seasonal trees.
The callbacks may also be useful for other things that need cleanup (I'm
thinking resource handles stored in wmem memory that need to be fclosed or
what-have-you before they the handle is lost).
As indicated by the number of caveats in README.wmem, the implementation
probably needs a bit of work to make it safer/saner/more-useful. Thoughts
(or patches!) in this direction are more than welcome.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=49205
- better tests
- fix a bug caught by the better tests
- implement append_c and append_unichar, with tests
Wmem string-buffers now have feature parity with their emem equivalents, so
remove them from the TODO list.
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(removed in r48218) which did nothing particularly useful. Also lets us remove
another debugging environment variable.
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a GSList. This permits it to implement the new realloc and free functions. Also
fill in an empty gc function, since there isn't much it can do as far as
garbage-collection goes.
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determine the desired type. This has two advantages over the old way:
- just one environment variable for valgrind to override in order to guarantee
that ALL allocators use memory it can track, and just one place to check that
variable
- allocator owners no longer have to include headers specific to their
allocator, allowing them to change allocators without adjusting all their
#includes
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Jeff Morriss