On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Eric Day <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Ross and I have had a very thorough thread going on about libdrizzle > and some questions have come out of it. Here are a couple decisions > we would like feedback on: > > > libdrizzle will optionally allocate memory for your objects if you > do not. For example, you can do: > > /* User allocated. */ > drizzle_st drizzle; > drizzle_create(&drizzle); > > or: > > /* libdrizzle allocated */ > drizzle_st *drizzle; > drizzle= drizzle_create(NULL) > > What do folks think about this interface? Would having two functions > be preferable to just one? For example: > > drizzle_st drizzle; > drizzle_init(&drizzle)? > > and: > > drizzle_st *drizzle; > drizzle= drizzle_new(void); /* Calls malloc() and drizzle_init() */ >
Have you given thought to the alternative of making drizzle_st a opaque type? and adding the ability to pass allocators..
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