Patrick Steinhardt 35730302e9 reftable/basics: ban standard allocator functions ...

The reftable library uses pluggable allocators, which means that we
shouldn't ever use the standard allocator functions. But it is an easy
mistake to make to accidentally use e.g. free(3P) instead of the
reftable-specific `reftable_free()` function, and we do not have any
mechanism to detect this misuse right now.

Introduce a couple of macros that ban the standard allocators, similar
to how we do it in "banned.h".

Note that we do not ban the following two classes of functions:

  - Macros like `FREE_AND_NULL()` or `REALLOC_ARRAY()`. As those expand
    to code that contains already-banned functions we'd get a compiler
    error even without banning those macros explicitly.

  - Git-specific allocators like `xmalloc()` and friends. The primary
    reason is that there are simply too many of them, so we're rather
    aiming for best effort here. Furthermore, the eventual goal is to
    make them unavailable in the reftable library place by not pulling
    them in via "git-compat-utils.h" anymore.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2024-10-02 07:53:56 -07:00

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