efl/src/lib/eina/eina_trash.h

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/* EINA - EFL data type library
* Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Carsten Haitzler, Vincent Torri, Jorge Luis Zapata Muga
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library;
* if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#ifndef EINA_TRASH_H__
#define EINA_TRASH_H__
/**
* @defgroup Eina_Trash_Group Trash
* @ingroup Eina_Containers_Group
* @brief This group provides a generic container.
*
* @{
*/
/**
* @typedef Eina_Trash
* @brief The type for structure #_Eina_Trash.
*/
typedef struct _Eina_Trash Eina_Trash;
/**
* @struct _Eina_Trash
* @brief The structure type for a generic container of an unused allocated pointer.
*/
struct _Eina_Trash
{
Eina_Trash *next; /**< Next item in the trash */
};
/**
* @brief Initializes a trash before using it.
* @details This function just set to zero the trash to correctly
* initialize it.
*
* @param[in] trash The trash
*
* @note You can just set *trash to @c NULL and you will have
* the same result.
*/
static inline void eina_trash_init(Eina_Trash **trash) EINA_ARG_NONNULL(1);
/**
* @brief Pushes an unused pointer in the trash instead of freeing it.
* @details Instead of freeing a pointer and put pressure on malloc/free
* you can push it in a trash for a later use. This function just
* provide a fast way to push a now unused pointer into a trash.
*
* @param[in] trash A pointer to an Eina_Trash
* @param data An unused pointer big enough to put a (void*)
*
* @note Do not use the pointer after insertion or bad things will
* happens.
*
* @note This trash will not resize, nor do anything with the size of
* the region pointed by @p data, so it's your duty to manage the size.
*/
static inline void eina_trash_push(Eina_Trash **trash, void *data) EINA_ARG_NONNULL(1);
/**
* @brief Pops an available pointer from the trash if possible.
* @details Instead of calling malloc, and putting pressure on malloc/free
* you can recycle the content of the trash, if it's not empty.
*
* @param[in] trash A #Eina_Trash handle
*
* @note This trash will not resize, nor do anything with the size of
* the region pointed by pointer inside the trash, so it's your duty
* to manage the size of the returned pointer.
*/
static inline void *eina_trash_pop(Eina_Trash **trash) EINA_ARG_NONNULL(1) EINA_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
/**
* @def EINA_TRASH_CLEAN
* @brief Definition for a macro to remove all the pointers from the trash.
* @details This macro allows the cleaning of @a trash in an easy way. It
* removes all the pointers from @a trash until it's empty.
*
* @param trash The trash to clean
* @param data The pointer extracted from the trash
*
* @note This macro can be used for freeing the data in the trash, like in
* the following example:
*
* @code
* Eina_Trash *trash = NULL;
* char *data;
*
* // trash is filled with a pointer to some duped strings.
*
* EINA_TRASH_CLEAN(&trash, data)
* free(data);
* @endcode
*
* @note This macro is useful when you implement some memory pool.
*/
#define EINA_TRASH_CLEAN(trash, data) while ((data = eina_trash_pop(trash)))
#include "eina_inline_trash.x"
/**
* @}
*/
#endif /* EINA_TRASH_H_ */