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authorroot <root>2007-11-28 17:32:24 +0000
committerroot <root>2007-11-28 17:32:24 +0000
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fucking windows hates iso c, stupid microsoft lock-in strategy
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<meta name="description" content="Pod documentation for libev" />
<meta name="inputfile" content="&lt;standard input&gt;" />
<meta name="outputfile" content="&lt;standard output&gt;" />
- <meta name="created" content="Wed Nov 28 12:31:29 2007" />
+ <meta name="created" content="Wed Nov 28 18:32:11 2007" />
<meta name="generator" content="Pod::Xhtml 1.57" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://res.tst.eu/pod.css"/></head>
<body>
@@ -232,13 +232,14 @@ might be supported on the current system, you would need to look at
recommended ones.</p>
<p>See the description of <code>ev_embed</code> watchers for more info.</p>
</dd>
- <dt>ev_set_allocator (void *(*cb)(void *ptr, size_t size))</dt>
+ <dt>ev_set_allocator (void *(*cb)(void *ptr, long size))</dt>
<dd>
- <p>Sets the allocation function to use (the prototype and semantics are
-identical to the realloc C function). It is used to allocate and free
-memory (no surprises here). If it returns zero when memory needs to be
-allocated, the library might abort or take some potentially destructive
-action. The default is your system realloc function.</p>
+ <p>Sets the allocation function to use (the prototype is similar - the
+semantics is identical - to the realloc C function). It is used to
+allocate and free memory (no surprises here). If it returns zero when
+memory needs to be allocated, the library might abort or take some
+potentially destructive action. The default is your system realloc
+function.</p>
<p>You could override this function in high-availability programs to, say,
free some memory if it cannot allocate memory, to use a special allocator,
or even to sleep a while and retry until some memory is available.</p>