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| author | root <root> | 2007-11-27 19:41:52 +0000 |
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| committer | root <root> | 2007-11-27 19:41:52 +0000 |
| commit | 40ea26d7fa3e9214a7da4bb1280515948e1a1568 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a8eb247a9f5f13698028693da7822f1855911c4 /ev.html | |
| parent | 6800c1e86d28e4bc573747e6d327c770b2e00df4 (diff) | |
I ❤ µ-opts
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <meta name="description" content="Pod documentation for libev" /> <meta name="inputfile" content="<standard input>" /> <meta name="outputfile" content="<standard output>" /> - <meta name="created" content="Tue Nov 27 20:23:27 2007" /> + <meta name="created" content="Tue Nov 27 20:38:24 2007" /> <meta name="generator" content="Pod::Xhtml 1.57" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://res.tst.eu/pod.css"/></head> <body> @@ -181,20 +181,20 @@ 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, long size))</dt> + <dt>ev_set_allocator (void *(*cb)(void *ptr, size_t size))</dt> <dd> - <p>Sets the allocation function to use (the prototype is similar to the -realloc C function, the semantics are identical). 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 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>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> <p>Example: replace the libev allocator with one that waits a bit and then retries: better than mine).</p> <pre> static void * - persistent_realloc (void *ptr, long size) + persistent_realloc (void *ptr, size_t size) { for (;;) { |