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2014-09-18add macro REALLOC_ARRAYRené Scharfe
The macro ALLOC_GROW manages several aspects of dynamic memory allocations for arrays: It performs overprovisioning in order to avoid reallocations in future calls, updates the allocation size variable, multiplies the item size and thus allows users to simply specify the item count, performs the reallocation and updates the array pointer. Sometimes this is too much. Add the macro REALLOC_ARRAY, which only takes care of the latter three points and allows users to specfiy the number of items the array can store. It can increase and also decrease the size. Using the macro avoid duplicating the variable name and takes care of the item sizes automatically. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-06api-allocation-growing.txt: encourage better variable namingAdam Spiers
The documentation for the ALLOC_GROW API implicitly encouraged developers to use "ary" as the variable name for the array which is dynamically grown. However "ary" is an unusual abbreviation hardly used anywhere else in the source tree, and it is also better to name variables based on their contents not on their type. Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-15Start preparing the API documents.Junio C Hamano
Most of them are still stubs, but the procedure to build the HTML documentation, maintaining the index and installing the end product are there. I placed names of people who are likely to know the most about the topic in the stub files, so that volunteers will know whom to ask questions as needed. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>