Re: winefile temporary allocations

[Francois Gouget]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Martin Fuchs wrote:
> Changelog
> use macros for platform dependent temporary allocations

[...]
> +#define TMP_ALLOC(s) HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), 0, s)
> +#define TMP_FREE(p) HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, p)
> +#else
> +#define TMP_ALLOC(s) alloca(s)
> +#define TMP_FREE(p)
> #endif

Why is this needed?
Doesn't HeapAlloc work on any 'Win32' platform?

winefile temporary allocations

[Martin Fuchs]

> Why is this needed?
> Doesn't HeapAlloc work on any 'Win32' platform?

I want to avoid calling heap allocation functions.
Using alloca() is slightly lighter.

Regards,

Martin

winefile temporary allocations

[Dimitrie Paun]

> > Doesn't HeapAlloc work on any 'Win32' platform?
>
> I want to avoid calling heap allocation functions.
> Using alloca() is slightly lighter.

Please don't do that. It uglifies the code, and makes
it less reliable. alloca() is lighter but it's on the
stack, and I really doubt that yoy can measure the
difference anyway.