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authorKirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>2014-03-27 18:22:50 +0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-03-27 11:54:01 -0700
commit61f76a3612db199a9eb9090c2605d8fc35ffc41c (patch)
treefc5e216179e5fd11343f0b59b77b3da354ece5c9 /configure.ac
parent12cd81743dc4645ef909b0c38582f5714c9a8ff7 (diff)
downloadgit-61f76a3612db199a9eb9090c2605d8fc35ffc41c.tar.gz
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>
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2f433939dc..0eae70430c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -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.