[vorbis-dev] Re:

[Dan Conti]

Maybe the best solution is to provide a simple mechanism for people to
plug in their own malloc libs. It seems clear that having people 'do it
themselves', in terms of search-and-replacing malloc with their own
allocator, isn't a very good plan, since it effectively fragments the
source. Additionally, there's more than one person asking for it.

There is some sort of configure script i assume? (i dont keep up,
sorry). Why not have it so you could do ./configure my_conf or ./configure
--target=my_conf, then generate a default conf file where some macro
MALLOC() would map onto standard malloc, and let it be at that. Then
everyone who wants this new feature could just create their new
configuration file.

It doesn't seem to warrant extended discussion.
-Dan

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Michael Smith wrote:

> At 10:41 PM 10/23/00 GMT, you wrote:
> >>>However, the major API changes this also requires would be rather complex. 
> >>>If you're going to provide for callbacks, you obviously have to provide a 
> >>>method to actually tell the library what your callbacks are. And they have 
> >>>to propagate to _every_ function which might allocate or free memory. 
> >>>Hardly trivial.<<
> >
> >You need a set_ogg_malloc_handler(). That's it as far as the API goes.
> 
> Assuming you consider it acceptable to store that information in global
> variables. Something that is done in _no_ other part of libvorbis. If
> you're going to do this, why not just compile in a different malloc
> function? It's more or less equivalent. There's no good reason to add this,
> that I can see. 
> 
> Michael
> 
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