[PATCH 1/2] Turn deprecated allocation functions into inline ones

Mikhail Gusarov dottedmag at dottedmag.net
Wed May 19 04:55:15 PDT 2010


Twas brillig at 11:38:58 19.05.2010 UTC+02 when michel at daenzer.net did gyre and gimble:

 >> This changes ABI of server as Xalloc/Xfree/Xrealloc/Xstrdup are no
 >> longer exported. OTOH, API is not changed.

 MD> I'm not sure there's much point keeping the API around when the ABI
 MD> is removed. Warning-conscious drivers will need to be fixed up
 MD> anyway due to the deprecation warnings.

As soon as drivers are fixed these deprecated functions could be
removed. In meantime users won't have to deal with broken drivers
(especially those who try to bisect or otherwise find cause of bugs).

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