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Portable alloca for Git 

In the next patch we'll have to use alloca() for performance reasons,
but since alloca is non-standardized and is not portable, let's have a
trick with compatibility wrappers:

1. at configure time, determine, do we have working alloca() through
   alloca.h, and define

    #define HAVE_ALLOCA_H

   if yes.

2. in code

    #ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA_H
    # include <alloca.h>
    # define xalloca(size)      (alloca(size))
    # define xalloca_free(p)    do {} while(0)
    #else
    # define xalloca(size)      (xmalloc(size))
    # define xalloca_free(p)    (free(p))
    #endif

   and use it like

   func() {
       p = xalloca(size);
       ...

       xalloca_free(p);
   }

This way, for systems, where alloca is available, we'll have optimal
on-stack allocations with fast executions. On the other hand, on
systems, where alloca is not available, this gracefully fallbacks to
xmalloc/free.

Both autoconf and config.mak.uname configurations were updated. For
autoconf, we are not bothering considering cases, when no alloca.h is
available, but alloca() works some other way - its simply alloca.h is
available and works or not, everything else is deep legacy.

For config.mak.uname, I've tried to make my almost-sure guess for where
alloca() is available, but since I only have access to Linux it is the
only change I can be sure about myself, with relevant to other changed
systems people Cc'ed.

NOTE

SunOS and Windows had explicit -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H in their configurations.
I've changed that to now-common HAVE_ALLOCA_H=YesPlease which should be
correct.

Cc: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Cc: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Cc: Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> (GNU Hurd changes)
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Kirill Smelkov 2014-03-27 18:22:50 +04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 12cd81743d
commit 61f76a3612
4 changed files with 30 additions and 2 deletions
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Makefile
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@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ all::
# Define LIBPCREDIR=/foo/bar if your libpcre header and library files are in
# /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.
#
# Define HAVE_ALLOCA_H if you have working alloca(3) defined in that header.
#
# Define NO_CURL if you do not have libcurl installed. git-http-fetch and
# git-http-push are not built, and you cannot use http:// and https://
# transports (neither smart nor dumb).
@ -1099,6 +1101,10 @@ ifdef USE_LIBPCRE
EXTLIBS += -lpcre
endif
ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA_H
BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H
endif
ifdef NO_CURL
BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_CURL
REMOTE_CURL_PRIMARY =

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config.mak.uname
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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),OSF1)
NO_NSEC = YesPlease
endif
ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux)
HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease
NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
NO_MKSTEMPS = YesPlease
HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease
@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux)
HAVE_DEV_TTY = YesPlease
endif
ifeq ($(uname_S),GNU/kFreeBSD)
HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease
NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
NO_MKSTEMPS = YesPlease
HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease
@ -103,6 +105,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),SunOS)
NEEDS_NSL = YesPlease
SHELL_PATH = /bin/bash
SANE_TOOL_PATH = /usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease
NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease
NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease
NO_MKDTEMP = YesPlease
@ -146,7 +149,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),SunOS)
endif
INSTALL = /usr/ucb/install
TAR = gtar
BASIC_CFLAGS += -D__EXTENSIONS__ -D__sun__ -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H
BASIC_CFLAGS += -D__EXTENSIONS__ -D__sun__
endif
ifeq ($(uname_O),Cygwin)
ifeq ($(shell expr "$(uname_R)" : '1\.[1-6]\.'),4)
@ -166,6 +169,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_O),Cygwin)
else
NO_REGEX = UnfortunatelyYes
endif
HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease
NEEDS_LIBICONV = YesPlease
NO_FAST_WORKING_DIRECTORY = UnfortunatelyYes
NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT = YesPlease
@ -239,6 +243,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),AIX)
endif
ifeq ($(uname_S),GNU)
# GNU/Hurd
HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease
NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
NO_MKSTEMPS = YesPlease
HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease
@ -316,6 +321,7 @@ endif
ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
GIT_VERSION := $(GIT_VERSION).MSVC
pathsep = ;
HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease
NO_PREAD = YesPlease
NEEDS_CRYPTO_WITH_SSL = YesPlease
NO_LIBGEN_H = YesPlease
@ -363,7 +369,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
COMPAT_OBJS = compat/msvc.o compat/winansi.o \
compat/win32/pthread.o compat/win32/syslog.o \
compat/win32/dirent.o
COMPAT_CFLAGS = -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DNOGDI -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H -Icompat -Icompat/regex -Icompat/win32 -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\"
COMPAT_CFLAGS = -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DNOGDI -DHAVE_STRING_H -Icompat -Icompat/regex -Icompat/win32 -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\"
BASIC_LDFLAGS = -IGNORE:4217 -IGNORE:4049 -NOLOGO -SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE -NODEFAULTLIB:MSVCRT.lib
EXTLIBS = user32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib wininet.lib ws2_32.lib
PTHREAD_LIBS =

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configure.ac
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@ -272,6 +272,14 @@ AS_HELP_STRING([], [ARG can be also prefix for libpcre library and hea
GIT_CONF_SUBST([LIBPCREDIR])
fi)
#
# Define HAVE_ALLOCA_H if you have working alloca(3) defined in that header.
AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
case $ac_cv_working_alloca_h in
yes) HAVE_ALLOCA_H=YesPlease;;
*) HAVE_ALLOCA_H='';;
esac
GIT_CONF_SUBST([HAVE_ALLOCA_H])
#
# Define NO_CURL if you do not have curl installed. git-http-pull and
# git-http-push are not built, and you cannot use http:// and https://
# transports.

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git-compat-util.h
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@ -526,6 +526,14 @@ extern void release_pack_memory(size_t);
typedef void (*try_to_free_t)(size_t);
extern try_to_free_t set_try_to_free_routine(try_to_free_t);
#ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA_H
# include <alloca.h>
# define xalloca(size) (alloca(size))
# define xalloca_free(p) do {} while (0)
#else
# define xalloca(size) (xmalloc(size))
# define xalloca_free(p) (free(p))
#endif
extern char *xstrdup(const char *str);
extern void *xmalloc(size_t size);
extern void *xmallocz(size_t size);