[Bf-committers] changing threadsafe malloc

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

The scaling node is now in the the patch tracker.

Brecht.

David Millan wrote:
> Sound good, when you finish it You should said to "Plumiferos"
> 
> blendix at pandora.be escribió:
>> 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?