[cairo] Using OS/2 memory allocation APIs

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 14:33 +0100, Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> So, what do you suggest how I should solve the problem instead? If your 
> suggestion is "change the C library" then I can tell you upfront that I 
> don't have that choice...[1]
> Are you even against adding the patch I posted, i.e. to have it fully 
> contained within cairo-os2-surface.c?
> 
> And about the different free function: in the cases that I have pointed 
> out (I could give more detail) there is always a function that allocates 
> stuff and a corresponding function that frees stuff. So it's not like 
> for those allocations I would need to add the DosAllocMem() in one file 
> and the corresponding DosFreeMem() in another one or even worse several 
> other ones.
> 
>     Peter.
> 
> [1] One other possibility would be to use C library functionality to
>      create additional heaps, but that would need even more lines and be
>      way more ugly...

Hi Peter,

Sorry, I didn't notice that all the changes are indeed in
cairo-os2-surface.c only.  So, yes, you are in fact free to just go
ahead and commit those, becase OS/2 is not a supported backend and by
all means you are the maintainer and get to choose what to do.

But if you ask for my advice, I suggest adding a couple functions for
the allocations that you may want to accommodate using an alternate
allocator and do the #ifdef magic just in that function.  That should
make the patch much more comprehensible and maintainable.  Call it
something _alloc_buffer() and _free_buffer() for example.

Regards,

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