On 2024-11-04 22:29, Paul Eggert wrote:
I haven't yet messed with eealloc, which should be redundant now.
As you can see from my other emails today, other Gnulib modules no
longer depend on eealloc code, so I installed the attached to deprecate
eealloc.
From 671103c702804f673d12dbf9dbd3e3d79f4411ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 23:07:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] eealloc: deprecate
Now that malloc-gnu and realloc-posix arrange for the
various memory allocators to return non-null on success,
should be no need for the eealloc module.
* NEWS, modules/eealloc: Mention this.
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
NEWS | 3 +++
modules/eealloc | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 23479f4450..fd4a4db560 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2024-11-05 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
+ eealloc: deprecate
+ Now that malloc-gnu and realloc-posix arrange for the
+ various memory allocators to return non-null on success,
+ should be no need for the eealloc module.
+ * NEWS, modules/eealloc: Mention this.
+
relocatable-prog-wrapper: remove eealloc.m4
* modules/relocatable-prog-wrapper (Files): Remove m4/eealloc.m4.
It wasn’t being used and evidently was listed only because
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7c48798dbf..9e08bd1048 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ User visible incompatible changes
Date Modules Changes
+2024-11-05 eealloc This module is deprecated. Use malloc-gnu or
+ realloc-posix instead.
+
2024-10-22 spawn-pipe The functions 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
'create_pipe_bidi' now take a 4th argument
'const char * const *dll_dirs'. To maintain the
diff --git a/modules/eealloc b/modules/eealloc
index fee6d7b013..10ee49c16c 100644
--- a/modules/eealloc
+++ b/modules/eealloc
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
Description:
Memory allocation with expensive empty allocations
+Status:
+deprecated
+
+Notice:
+The eealloc module is deprecated.
+New code should use the malloc-gnu and/or realloc-posix modules.
+
Files:
lib/eealloc.h
lib/eealloc.c
--
2.43.0
