safety checks will report null pointers and other error conditions on
public api's and can be disabled by compile time check.
note that in order to have these checks working we need to make
EINA_ARG_NONNULL() void, otherwise GCC can remove these checks since
they're known to be false.
This commit also make two minor changes:
* list and hash accessors and iterators are created even for empty
entities. This is correct in my point of view since NULL should
indicate error. Having these in were an optimziation, but not
worth it, these are not the most common case and hitting this path
is not of much cost.
* unmarked some parameters as nonnull, mainly on list and inlist.
SVN revision: 38327
this should help with optimizations and code correctness, please see
"info gcc" for detailed explanation on these.
if you experience some functions not working as expected, please
double check if they're not marked with EINA_PURE or EINA_CONST, maybe
I misused them. Remove the macro and try again.
brief explanation:
* EINA_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT: if you forgot to use the return of some
function, it will emit a warning (and -Werror will make it an
error). This way it will be harder to miss the attribution
"l = eina_list_append(l, v)".
* EINA_ARG_NONNULL(index, index...): if you give it an explicit NULL
argument, or some tool (ie: clang) finds it could get a NULL but
this is not accepted by API, then a warning will be emitted. This
will help those that still use eina_hash_add() as if it is
evas_hash_add().
* EINA_MALLOC: any non-NULL pointer it returns cannot alias any other
pointer valid when function returns.
* EINA_PURE: function have no effects other than the return and this
return just depend on parameters and/or globals. You might call
this function in a loop a thousand times and it will return the
same value, thus you may move this function outside the loop and
remove it.
* EINA_CONST: stricter version of EINA_PURE, it will not check for
global parameters, that is, you cannot consider pointer
arguments. Use it for math things like "int sqrt(int)".
* EINA_PRINTF(fmt, arg): will check format parameter specified in
position "fmt" and passed arguments starting at position "arg", it
will check for things like giving integers where short or strings
were expected.
* EINA_SCANF(fmt, arg): similar to eina_printf().
* EINA_FORMAT(fmt): for use with things like dgettext(), it will get
a printf-like format string and modifies it.
Please review and test it with your software, make sure you make clean
before you install the new version so it has any effect.
If you find some functions are missing EINA_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT and
EINA_ARG_NONNULL or others, please add them.
SVN revision: 38323
Keep EINA_MAGIC at the end of the structure (WHEN POSSIBLE! Watch out
flexible arrays like char str[] at the end!)
this way if parts use EINA_MAGIC and others do not, it will possible overflow and valgrind can help us.
WARNING: make uninstall before update! Then make clean and make install, check if everything is working with "make check".
SVN revision: 37961
* minor other doc fixes
* link the mempool modules statically to libeina when requested
* don't compile static lib of mempool when they are built as shared lib
SVN revision: 36178
* reorganize a bit more. it's not finished
* fix spellingg and formatting
* gnuplot file names generated by our bechmarks tests have an
absolute time description and not H:M:S description, as this
breaks the check out of the repo on Windows.
SVN revision: 36090
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
Vincent Torri
Cedric BAIL