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Re: [top-level] C++-friendly allocators for libiberty
- From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>
- To: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>,GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:17:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: [top-level] C++-friendly allocators for libiberty
- Organization: Develer S.r.l.
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Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Couldn't we just agree on a few naming issues and use the
> same macros everywhere? I'd like to hear from the
> binutils people too.
I'm leaving for vacation and I'll be (mostly) away from the
keyboard for one week.
This is the libiberty patch again updated with the latest
suggestions.
The X*VAR() macros try to provide a full interface to
allocat structures of variable lenght. They're not
used anywhere at the moment, so I could drop them in
case the interface doesn't seem useful enough.
Andrew Cagney suggested using a different naming scheme
(XMALLOC, XCALLOC...) that has the advantage of being more
familiar to C programmers and has been used in GDB for a
few years. I still prefer XNEW/XDELETE, but I'm open to
changes if someone suggests names for the full set,
including the deallocators.
include/
2004-06-26 Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>
* include/libiberty.h (xnew, xcnew, xnewvec, xcnewvec, xobnew): Move
here from libcpp/internal.h.
(xdelete, xresizevec, xdeletevec, xnewvar, xcnewvar, xresizevar): New
macros.
diff -u -p -r1.35 libiberty.h
--- include/libiberty.h 15 May 2003 19:02:12 -0000 1.35
+++ include/libiberty.h 26 Jun 2004 16:35:34 -0000
@@ -250,6 +250,37 @@ extern PTR xmemdup PARAMS ((const PTR, s
extern double physmem_total PARAMS ((void));
extern double physmem_available PARAMS ((void));
+
+/* These macros provide a K&R/C89/C++-friendly way of allocating structures
+ with nice encapsulation. The XDELETE*() macros are technically
+ superfluous, but provided here for symmetry. Using them consistently
+ makes it easier to update client code to use different allocators such
+ as new/delete and new[]/delete[]. */
+
+/* Scalar allocators. */
+
+#define XNEW(T) ((T *) xmalloc (sizeof (T)))
+#define XCNEW(T) ((T *) xcalloc (1, sizeof (T)))
+#define XDELETE(P) free ((P))
+
+/* Array allocators. */
+
+#define XNEWVEC(T, N) ((T *) xmalloc (sizeof (T) * (N)))
+#define XCNEWVEC(T, N) ((T *) xcalloc ((N), sizeof (T)))
+#define XRESIZEVEC(T, P, N) ((T *) xrealloc ((P), sizeof (T) * (N)))
+#define XDELETEVEC(P) free ((P))
+
+/* Allocators for variable-sized structures and raw buffers. */
+
+#define XNEWVAR(T, S) ((T *) xmalloc ((S)))
+#define XCNEWVAR(T, S) ((T *) xcalloc (1, (S)))
+#define XRESIZEVAR(T, P, S) ((T *) xrealloc ((P), (S)))
+
+/* Type-safe obstack allocator. */
+
+#define XOBNEW(O, T) ((T *) obstack_alloc ((O), sizeof (T)))
+
+
/* hex character manipulation routines */
#define _hex_array_size 256
--
// Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
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