1. 14 Jan, 2014 3 commits
    • Robert Edmonds's avatar
    • Robert Edmonds's avatar
      configure.ac: remove the AC_CHECK_HEADERS checks · 4c7904fc
      Robert Edmonds authored
      some of these headers aren't used in the protobuf-c code base any more,
      and in any case the results of these checks (the HAVE_*_H defines in
      config.h) are not actually used anywhere and the absence of any of these
      headers doesn't cause configure to fail, so just delete these useless
      checks.
      4c7904fc
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      protobuf-c: replace DO_ALLOC, FREE, system_alloc, system_free with inline... · 09b801a9
      Robert Edmonds authored
      protobuf-c: replace DO_ALLOC, FREE, system_alloc, system_free with inline memory allocation functions
      
      this reworks memory allocation throughout the support library.
      
      the old DO_ALLOC macro had several problems:
      
        1) only by reading the macro implementation is it possible to tell
        what actually occurs. consider:
      
              DO_ALLOC(x, ...);
      
        vs.:
      
              x = do_alloc(...);
      
        only in the latter is it clear that x is being assigned to.
      
        2) it looks like a typical macro/function call, except it alters the
        control flow, usually by return'ing or executing a goto in the
        enclosing function. this type of anti-pattern is explicitly called out
        in the linux kernel coding style.
      
        3) in one instance, setting the destination pointer to NULL is
        actually a *success* return. in parse_required_member(), when parsing
        a PROTOBUF_C_TYPE_BYTES wire field, it is possible that the field is
        present but of zero length, in which case memory shouldn't be
        allocated and nothing should actually be copied. this is not apparent
        from reading:
      
              DO_ALLOC(bd->data, allocator, len - pref_len, return 0);
              memcpy(bd->data, data + pref_len, len - pref_len);
      
        instead, make this behavior explicit:
      
              if (len - pref_len > 0) {
                      bd->data = do_alloc(allocator, len - pref_len);
                      if (bd->data == NULL)
                              return 0;
                      memcpy(bd->data, data + pref_len, len - pref_len);
              }
      
        this is much more readable and makes it possible to write a
        replacement for DO_ALLOC which returns NULL on failures.
      
      this changes the protobuf_c_default_allocator to contain only NULL
      values; if a replacement function pointer is not present (non-NULL) in
      this struct, the default malloc/free implementations are used. this
      makes it impossible to call the default allocator functions directly and
      represents an API/ABI break, which required a fix to the
      PROTOBUF_C_BUFFER_SIMPLE_CLEAR macro.
      
      despite turning one-line allocations in the simple case:
      
      	DO_ALLOC(rv, allocator, desc->sizeof_message, return NULL);
      
      into three-line statements like:
      
      	rv = do_alloc(allocator, desc->sizeof_message);
      	if (!rv)
      		return (NULL);
      
      this changeset actually *reduces* the total number of lines in the
      support library.
      09b801a9
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