This change lets us remove a field from the structure that leads to
around 20KiB more of saving in private dirty pages in elementary.
This also looks a bit better and feels a bit cleaner.
Breaks API and ABI.
Before this commit, function overrides were explicit. That is, you'd
have to explicitly state you were overriding a function instead of
creating a new one. This made the code a tad more complex, and was also
a bit more annoying to use. This commit removes this extra piece of
information.
This means we now store much less information per function, that will
let us further optimise out structures in the future.
This was never used and there is no plan to ever use it. I'm going to
soon add a different mechanism with which it will be possible to provide
them again to Eo if ever needed without breaking ABI. Though it's
unlikely it will ever be.
This commit changes the way refcount is dealt with internally. Before
this commit, there was one refcount shared between Eo internals and
users. Now there is a refcount for eo operations (like for example,
function calls) and one for user refcount (eo_ref).
An example bug that this protects against (which is seemingly rather
common) is:
some_eo_func(obj);
// Inside the implementation of that func:
pd->a = 1; // The object's private data
eo_unref(obj); // To delete the object
eo_unref(obj); // A big one extra unref
pd->a = 2; // Segfault, this data has already been freed
This is a feature, but really just a fix for a class of bugs.
@feature
This reverts commit 546ff7bbba.
It seems that eo_del() is useful and removing it was creating bugs.
The issue is that the way we defined parents in eo, both the parent and
the programmer share a reference to the object. When we eo_unref() that
reference as the programmer, eo has no way to know it's this specific
reference we are freeing, and not a general one, so in some
circumstances, for example:
eo_ref(child);
eo_unref(child); // trying to delete here
eo_unref(container); // container is deleted here
eo_unref(child); // child already has 0 refs before this point.
We would have an issue with references and objects being freed too soon
and in general, issue with the references.
Having eo_del() solves that, because this one explicitly unparents if
there is a parent, meaning the reference ownership is explicitly taken
by the programmer.
eo_del() is essentially a convenience function around "check if has
parent, and if so unparent, otherwise, unref". Which should be used when
you want to delete an object although it has a parent, and is equivalent
to eo_unref() when it doesn't have one.
We used to have eo_del() as the mirrored action to eo_add(). No longer,
now you just always eo_unref() to delete an object. This change makes it
so the reference of the parent is shared with the reference the
programmer has. So eo_parent_set(obj, NULL) can free an object, and so
does eo_unref() (even if there is a parent).
This means Eo no longer complains if you have a parent during deletion.
I just ran my script (email to follow) to migrate all of the EFL
automatically. This commit is *only* the automatic conversion, so it can
be easily reverted and re-run.
Before this fix, when a deletion was invoked twice on an object, a
wrong message ("...You wrongly call eo_unref() within a destructor...")
was printed. This was caused by the del_triggered flag that was not
resetted when the destruction finished.
This patch fixes this behavior by printing the right message on a double
deletion.
It works but the compiler is right when complaining about it. fail_unless()
expects and integer but we passed in a pointer. Negate the pointer and use
fail_if() like we do in all other places.
Cedric Bail
Jean-Philippe Andre
Tom Hacohen
Vincent Torri
Daniel Zaoui
Stefan Schmidt
Jérémy Zurcher