[Bf-committers] changing threadsafe malloc

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Sounds excellent!

-Ton-

On 6 Sep, 2006, at 11:00, blendix at pandora.be wrote:

>
> Hey all,
>
> I'm implementing a compositor node for scaling, and would like to use  
> the imbuf scaling functions. These can't be called directly, because  
> they do malloc with the MEM_*N functions, and with threads enabled  
> MEM_*T should be used instead. Other nodes do some ugly hacks around  
> this problem.
>
> Maybe a nicer solution would be to make the MEM_*N functions  
> threadsafe when threads are enabled. The BLI_init_threads could set  
> two callback functions to be use by MEM_*N for lock/unlock, and  
> BLI_end_threads would NULL them again. This would also allow to remove  
> those MEM_*T functions, it's easy to forget using them.
>
> Good idea? If so, can I commit this change?
>
> Brecht
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