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| author | Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net> | 2016-05-12 13:39:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net> | 2016-05-13 16:00:58 +0000 |
| commit | 4d4190f12791ca04599c616800b6f7803b1d5f54 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bd25c14b2cb3a28ff7e4ea61c2710ce1349e713 /doc | |
| parent | f3e120816c1e74eda131f95a74e61777995c2c7b (diff) | |
| download | wireshark-4d4190f12791ca04599c616800b6f7803b1d5f54.tar.gz | |
Have wmem conform to checkAPIs.pl
Yes, the rename of structure members is a bit hacky.
Yes, catering to Windows since "GLib's v*printf routines are
surprisingly slow on Windows".
But it does pass checkAPIs.pl
Change-Id: I5b1552472c83aa2e159f17b5b7eb70b37d03eff9
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/15404
Reviewed-by: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.wmem | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.wmem b/doc/README.wmem index 455a608f88..7751a7ba7d 100644 --- a/doc/README.wmem +++ b/doc/README.wmem @@ -255,15 +255,15 @@ read-only by the allocator implementation. 4.1.2 Consumer Functions - - alloc() - - free() - - realloc() + - walloc() + - wfree() + - wrealloc() These function pointers should be set to functions with semantics obviously similar to their standard-library namesakes. Each one takes an extra parameter that is a copy of the allocator's private_data pointer. -Note that realloc() and free() are not expected to be called directly by user +Note that wrealloc() and wfree() are not expected to be called directly by user code in most cases - they are primarily optimisations for use by data structures that wmem might want to implement (it's inefficient, for example, to implement a dynamically sized array without some form of realloc). @@ -271,8 +271,8 @@ implement a dynamically sized array without some form of realloc). Also note that allocators do not have to handle NULL pointers or 0-length requests in any way - those checks are done in an allocator-agnostic way higher up in wmem. Allocator authors can assume that all incoming pointers -(to realloc and free) are non-NULL, and that all incoming lengths (to malloc -and realloc) are non-0. +(to wrealloc and wfree) are non-NULL, and that all incoming lengths (to walloc +and wrealloc) are non-0. 4.1.3 Producer/Manager Functions |