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* Replace tallocwm42013-10-131-1751/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are multiple reasons to do this. One big reason is the license: talloc is LGPLv3+, which forces mpv to be licensed as GPLv3+. Another one is that our talloc copy contains modifications, which makes it essentially incompatible with upstream talloc (in particular, our version aborts on out of memory conditions - well, it wasn't my idea). Updating from upstream is also a bit involved - the talloc source is not really organized in a way to allow copying it into projects (and this isn't an intended use-case). Finally, talloc is kind of big and bloated. The replacement halves the amount of code - mainly because we didn't use all talloc features. It's even more extreme if you compare upstream talloc (~4700 lines) and the new allocator without talloc compat (~900 lines). The replacement provides all features we need. It also doesn't clash with talloc. (The talloc compatibility wrapper uses macros to avoid introducing linker-level symbols which could clash with libtalloc.) It also tries to lower the overhead (only 4 words opposed to 10 words in talloc for leaf nodes in release mode). Debugging features like leak reporting can be enabled at compile time and add somewhat more overhead. Though I'm not sure whether the overhead reduction was actually successful: allocations with children need an "extra" header, which adds plenty of overhead, and it turns out that almost half of all allocations have children. Maybe the implementation could be simplified and the extra header removed - even then, overhead would be lower than talloc's. Currently, debugging features can be entirely deactivated by defining NDEBUG - I'm not sure if anything defines this directly yet, though. Unlike in talloc, the leak reporting stuff is thread-safe. (That's also why it's far less elegant, and requires extra list pointers.) Comes with a compatibility layer, so no changes to mpv source code are needed. The idea is that we will pretend to be using talloc for a while, so that we can revert to our old talloc implementation at any time for debugging purposes. Some inspiration was taken from Mesa's ralloc: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/glsl/ralloc.h This is another talloc replacement, but lacks some features we need (getting size of an allocation, debugging features, being able to access children in the dtor). There's some information in ta/README what will happen next and how the transition is expected to progress.
* talloc: change talloc destructor signaturewm42013-10-131-13/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Change talloc destructor so that they can never signal failure, and don't return a status code. This makes our talloc copy even more incompatible to upstream talloc, but on the other hand this is preparation for getting rid of talloc entirely. (The talloc replacement in the next commit won't allow the talloc_free equivalent to fail, and the destructor return value would be useless. But I don't want to change any mpv code either; the idea is that the talloc replacement commit can be reverted for some time in order to test whether the talloc replacement introduced a regression.)
* talloc: fix strndup group of functionswm42012-10-121-2/+2
| | | | This bug has been fixed years ago in upstream talloc.
* talloc.[ch]: remove "type safety" hack that violates C typesUoti Urpala2011-08-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | The destructors used by talloc take a "void *" first parameter. However talloc.h had a #define hack that treated the destructor as a function taking first parameter of type "typeof(ptr)" where ptr is the pointer the destructor is set for. I suppose this was done to add some kind of "type safety" against adding a destructor expecting another type of pointer; however this hack is questionable and violates the real C level typing. Remove the hack from the header and adjust talloc.c to avoid a warning about a C type violation that became visible after removing the hack.
* talloc.c: Update to match current upstream ("likely" macro definitions)Uoti Urpala2008-12-271-2/+10
| | | | | | Use the current macro definitions for likely/unlikely from Samba. The old version lacked parentheses around the non-GCC alternative, but there are no uses where this would actually make a difference.
* Make talloc abort() instead of returning NULLUoti Urpala2008-04-231-9/+9
| | | | | | Replace (hopefully) all cases where normally successful allocations could return NULL with abort(). This should allow skipping most checks on allocation return values.
* Hardcode feature checks in talloc.cUoti Urpala2008-04-231-1/+27
| | | | | | Original talloc build system used autoconf to check for features, most of which were standard C headers. Assume those always exist. Always use a workaround for the one non-standard feature (strnlen).
* Add the talloc memory allocatorUoti Urpala2008-04-231-0/+1724
Copy talloc.c and talloc.h from Samba (last changed 2008-04-17 in commit 7b9a647ebbbe9ec9e1b82b42e3a8916396f91273).