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2007-10-10r8126: - moved to 16 byte alignment for talloc. This is in response to a bugAndrew Tridgell1-1/+1
report from robert collins. - updated talloc guide to reflect the fact that over the last few months talloc overhead compared to malloc has dropped, probably due to a bunch of small changes. It now costs about 4% more than malloc on my box (This used to be commit 689a9ccf91f9de560a500787d85321abe096b948)
2007-10-10r7778: added talloc_find_parent_bytype() and talloc_find_parent_byname()Andrew Tridgell1-0/+13
These provide a way to find a parent of a ptr that is of a given type. I will be using this to find the event context in smbd, relying on the fact that everything is a child of the top level event context. I did look at the alternatives, and found that passing the event context to just about every call in smbd was getting way too complex (we need to get it to anything that can do a ldb operation, as that can invoke ldap). So this method avoids a global, and seems to work nicely (This used to be commit bdb55c7a10a516b75652065e14f5acd09d24ab35)
2007-10-10r7556: fixed typo in documentationDerrell Lipman1-2/+2
(This used to be commit 77fc2036a0db7bde9e90f090dbcd75ea70b3e0a0)
2007-10-10r6645: Add talloc_get_size() function.Simo Sorce1-0/+8
Sometimes it is usefull to know this data. Simo. (This used to be commit df401847827ef660d8b9d55af9b27bb85bad6b5f)
2007-10-10r6513: Commit talloc_free_children.Volker Lendecke1-0/+8
Volker (This used to be commit 9fa26d2c971a7baee64d8938e31909cac80f0e5a)
2007-10-10r6075: added talloc_enable_null_tracking() (asked for by lifeless)Andrew Tridgell1-0/+8
(This used to be commit 40b8ee186af3e7f771c680dbbb03fdcf559bf103)
2007-10-10r6033: Patch from 'lifeless' to clarify behaviour with NULL pointers.Andrew Bartlett1-0/+1
Andrew Bartlett (This used to be commit 48c518796797f021c9c7f319ca8cd0a0c185f64c)
2007-10-10r5939: improve talloc_realloc() docs after feedback from lifelessAndrew Tridgell1-1/+5
(This used to be commit 301cbb0d12919f83d6b735c2e23b49fb49d5394d)
2007-10-10r4793: minor doc updatesAndrew Tridgell1-15/+9
(This used to be commit ad1af519eb1a138e44cc94676f845b8ba65e3371)
2007-10-10r4790: added type checking helper macros in talloc. These take advantage ofAndrew Tridgell1-0/+32
the type names that talloc already keeps around for pointers, and allows the user to type check void* private pointers. It can also be used to implement polymorphism in C, as I'm sure someone would have pointed out to me sooner or later :-) (This used to be commit c283e1a3efac3a92e29a35856e20eb61ef4c221e)
2007-10-10r4591: - converted the other _p talloc functions to not need _pAndrew Tridgell1-21/+28
- added #if TALLOC_DEPRECATED around the _p functions - fixes the code that broke from the above while doing this I fixed quite a number of places that were incorrectly using the non type-safe talloc functions to use the type safe ones. Some were even doing multiplies for array allocation, which is potentially unsafe. (This used to be commit 6e7754abd0c225527fb38363996a6e241b87b37e)
2007-10-10r4550: talloc() is now typesafe. It is exactly equivalent to the old ↵Andrew Tridgell1-20/+20
talloc_p() macro. Use talloc_size() if you want the old behaviour. I have kept talloc_p() as an alias for now. Once we change all calls to be plain talloc() then we can remove it. (This used to be commit 2011bbeb841fd6bfccf3d44a49f79203f7f55baa)
2007-10-10r4547: - added talloc_new(ctx) macro that is a neater form of the common ↵Andrew Tridgell1-0/+9
talloc(ctx, 0) call. - cleaned up some talloc usage in various files I'd like to get to the point that we have no calls to talloc(), at which point we will rename talloc_p() to talloc(), to encourage everyone to use the typesafe functions. (This used to be commit e6c81d7c9f8a6938947d3c1c8a971a0d6d50b67a)
2007-10-10r4479: added the function talloc_autofree_context() which returns a talloc ↵Andrew Tridgell1-0/+6
context that will automatically be freed on program exit. This is useful for reducing clutter in leak reports (This used to be commit cf73dda652e0a121901f22771104be6751c0fcb9)
2007-10-10r4473: - moved talloc into its own lib/talloc/ areaAndrew Tridgell1-0/+492
- added gcov flags to Makefile.talloc - expanded talloc testsuite to add a test for realloc with a child ptr - fixed a bug in talloc_realloc() with realloc of a ptr that has child ptrs (This used to be commit 98b5f73c1ba34d7576c5995069b485c1c5ede324)