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@@ -1,10 +1,31 @@ +2007-03-19 Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> + + * ALL: Use the strcache for all file name strings, or other + strings which we will never free. The goal is to save memory by + avoiding duplicate copies of strings. However, at the moment this + doesn't save much memory in most situations: due to secondary + expansion we actually save prerequisite lists twice (once before + the secondary expansion, and then again after it's been parsed + into individual file names in the dep list). We will resolve this + in a future change, by doing the parsing up-front for targets + where secondary expansion is not set. + + Moving things into the strcache also allows us to use const + pointers in many more places. + +2007-01-03 Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> + + * make.h (ENULLLOOP): Reset errno after each failed invocation of + the function, not just the first. Fixes Savannah bug #18680. + 2006-11-18 Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> * strcache.c (strcache_add_len): Don't allocate a new buffer unless the string is not already nil-terminated. Technically this is a violation of the standard, since we may be passed an array that is not long enough to test one past. However, in make this - is never true since we only use nil-terminated strings. + is never true since we only use nil-terminated strings or + sub-strings thereof. * read.c (eval, do_define): Use cmd_prefix instead of '\t'. @@ -24,6 +45,7 @@ * vmsify.c: Constification. Hard to test this but I hope I didn't screw it up! * vpath.c: Partial constification. + * w32/pathstuff.c: Partial constification. 2006-11-16 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |