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* ecpg: improve preprocessor's memory management.Tom Lane2024-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Invent a notion of "local" storage that will automatically be reclaimed at the end of each statement. Use this for location strings as well as other visibly short-lived data within the parser. Also, make cat_str and make_str return local storage and not free their inputs, which allows dispensing with a whole lot of retail mm_strdup calls. We do have to add some new ones in places where a local-lifetime string needs to be added to a longer-lived data structure, but on balance there are a lot less mm_strdup calls than before. In hopes of flushing out places where changes were necessary, I changed YYLTYPE from "char *" to "const char *", which forced const-ification of various function arguments that probably should've been like that all along. This still leaks somewhat more memory than v17, but that will be cleaned up in future commits. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2011420.1713493114@sss.pgh.pa.us
* ecpg: move some functions into a new file ecpg/preproc/util.c.Tom Lane2024-10-14
mm_alloc and mm_strdup were in type.c, which seems a completely random choice. No doubt the original author thought two small functions didn't deserve their own file. But I'm about to add some more memory-management stuff beside them, so let's put them in a less surprising place. This seems like a better home for mmerror, mmfatal, and the cat_str/make_str family, too. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2011420.1713493114@sss.pgh.pa.us