* of the object is a string of the type, but if CCAN_TAL_DEBUG is
* defined it also contains the file and line which allocated it.
*
+ * tal_count() of the return will be 1.
+ *
* Example:
* int *p = tal(NULL, int);
* *p = 1;
* @type: the type to allocate.
* @count: the number to allocate.
*
- * Note that an object allocated with tal_arr() has a length property;
- * see tal_count().
+ * tal_count() of the returned pointer will be @count.
*
* Example:
* p = tal_arr(NULL, int, 2);
* @type: the type to allocate.
* @count: the number to allocate.
*
- * Note that an object allocated with tal_arrz() has a length property;
- * see tal_count().
+ * Equivalent to tal_arr() followed by memset() to zero.
*
* Example:
* p = tal_arrz(NULL, int, 2);
tal_arrz_label(ctx, type, count, TAL_LABEL(type, "[]"))
/**
- * tal_resize - enlarge or reduce a tal_arr[z].
+ * tal_resize - enlarge or reduce a tal object.
* @p: A pointer to the tal allocated array to resize.
* @count: the number to allocate.
*
* This returns true on success (and may move *@p), or false on failure.
- * If @p has a length property, it is updated on success.
+ * On success, tal_count() of *@p will be @count.
+ *
+ * Note: if *p is take(), it will still be take() upon return, even if it
+ * has been moved.
*
* Example:
* tal_resize(&p, 100);
tal_resize_((void **)(p), sizeof**(p), (count), false)
/**
- * tal_resizez - enlarge or reduce a tal_arr[z]; zero out extra.
+ * tal_resizez - enlarge or reduce a tal object; zero out extra.
* @p: A pointer to the tal allocated array to resize.
* @count: the number to allocate.
*
* This returns true on success (and may move *@p), or false on failure.
- * If @p has a length property, it is updated on success.
- * On expand, new elements are memset to 0 bytes.
*
* Example:
* tal_resizez(&p, 200);
/**
* tal_steal - change the parent of a tal-allocated pointer.
* @ctx: The new parent.
- * @ptr: The tal allocated object to move.
+ * @ptr: The tal allocated object to move, or NULL.
*
* This may need to perform an allocation, in which case it may fail; thus
- * it can return NULL, otherwise returns @ptr.
+ * it can return NULL, otherwise returns @ptr. If @ptr is NULL, this function does
+ * nothing.
*/
#if HAVE_STATEMENT_EXPR
/* Weird macro avoids gcc's 'warning: value computed is not used'. */
* @function: the function to call before it's freed.
*
* If @function has not been successfully added as a destructor, this returns
- * false.
+ * false. Note that if we're inside the destructor call itself, this will
+ * return false.
*/
#define tal_del_destructor(ptr, function) \
tal_del_destructor_((ptr), typesafe_cb(void, void *, (function), (ptr)))
* @function: the function to call before it's freed.
*
* If @function has not been successfully added as a destructor, this returns
- * false.
+ * false. Note that if we're inside the destructor call itself, this will
+ * return false.
*/
#define tal_del_destructor(ptr, function) \
tal_del_destructor_((ptr), typesafe_cb(void, void *, (function), (ptr)))
/**
* tal_add_notifier - add a callback function when this context changes.
- * @ptr: The tal allocated object.
+ * @ptr: The tal allocated object, or NULL.
* @types: Bitwise OR of the types the callback is interested in.
* @callback: the function to call.
*
const char *tal_name(const tal_t *ptr);
/**
- * tal_count - get the count of objects in a tal_arr.
- * @ptr: The tal allocated object array (or NULL)
+ * tal_count - get the count of objects in a tal object.
+ * @ptr: The tal allocated object (or NULL)
*
- * Returns 0 if @ptr has no length property or is NULL, but be aware
- * that that is also a valid size!
+ * Returns 0 if @ptr is NULL. Note that if the allocation was done as a
+ * different type to @ptr, the result may not match the @count argument
+ * (or implied 1) of that allocation!
*/
#define tal_count(p) (tal_bytelen(p) / sizeof(*p))
/**
- * tal_bytelen - get the count of bytes in a tal_arr.
- * @ptr: The tal allocated object array (or NULL)
+ * tal_bytelen - get the count of bytes in a tal object.
+ * @ptr: The tal allocated object (or NULL)
*
- * Returns 0 if @ptr has no length property or NULL, but be aware that that is
- * also a valid size!
+ * Returns 0 if @ptr is NULL.
*/
size_t tal_bytelen(const tal_t *ptr);
/* Lower-level interfaces, where you want to supply your own label string. */
#define tal_label(ctx, type, label) \
- ((type *)tal_alloc_((ctx), sizeof(type), false, false, label))
+ ((type *)tal_alloc_((ctx), sizeof(type), false, label))
#define talz_label(ctx, type, label) \
- ((type *)tal_alloc_((ctx), sizeof(type), true, false, label))
+ ((type *)tal_alloc_((ctx), sizeof(type), true, label))
#define tal_arr_label(ctx, type, count, label) \
- ((type *)tal_alloc_arr_((ctx), sizeof(type), (count), false, true, label))
+ ((type *)tal_alloc_arr_((ctx), sizeof(type), (count), false, label))
#define tal_arrz_label(ctx, type, count, label) \
- ((type *)tal_alloc_arr_((ctx), sizeof(type), (count), true, true, label))
+ ((type *)tal_alloc_arr_((ctx), sizeof(type), (count), true, label))
#define tal_dup_label(ctx, type, p, label) \
((type *)tal_dup_((ctx), tal_typechk_(p, type *), \
sizeof(type), 1, 0, \
- false, label))
+ label))
#define tal_dup_arr_label(ctx, type, p, n, extra, label) \
((type *)tal_dup_((ctx), tal_typechk_(p, type *), \
sizeof(type), (n), (extra), \
- true, label))
+ label))
/**
* tal_set_backend - set the allocation or error functions to use
#ifdef CCAN_TAL_DEBUG
/**
- * tal_dump - dump entire tal tree.
+ * tal_dump - dump entire tal tree to stderr.
*
* This is a helper for debugging tal itself, which dumps all the tal internal
* state.
#define tal_typechk_(ptr, ptype) (ptr)
#endif
-void *tal_alloc_(const tal_t *ctx, size_t bytes, bool clear,
- bool add_length, const char *label);
+void *tal_alloc_(const tal_t *ctx, size_t bytes, bool clear, const char *label);
void *tal_alloc_arr_(const tal_t *ctx, size_t bytes, size_t count, bool clear,
- bool add_length, const char *label);
+ const char *label);
void *tal_dup_(const tal_t *ctx, const void *p TAKES, size_t size,
- size_t n, size_t extra, bool add_length,
- const char *label);
+ size_t n, size_t extra, const char *label);
tal_t *tal_steal_(const tal_t *new_parent, const tal_t *t);