From cfea745dc745dcb0af8704d7cdb50d9725714b04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 10:24:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Migrated util.go back and formalized pkguiAlloc().

---
 datetimepicker.go              |  4 ++--
 AAA_GOFILES/util.go => util.go | 26 +++++++++-----------------
 util.h                         |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
 rename AAA_GOFILES/util.go => util.go (57%)
 create mode 100644 util.h

diff --git a/datetimepicker.go b/datetimepicker.go
index 0859a32..6e64e34 100644
--- a/datetimepicker.go
+++ b/datetimepicker.go
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ import (
 // #include <stdlib.h>
 // #include <time.h>
 // #include "ui.h"
+// #include "util.h"
 // static inline struct tm *allocTimeStruct(void)
 // {
-// 	/* TODO handle error */
-// 	return (struct tm *) malloc(sizeof (struct tm));
+// 	return (struct tm *) pkguiAlloc(sizeof (struct tm));
 // }
 // extern void doDateTimePickerOnChanged(uiDateTimePicker *, void *);
 import "C"
diff --git a/AAA_GOFILES/util.go b/util.go
similarity index 57%
rename from AAA_GOFILES/util.go
rename to util.go
index b097004..bcd4d33 100644
--- a/AAA_GOFILES/util.go
+++ b/util.go
@@ -7,34 +7,26 @@ import (
 )
 
 // #include <stdlib.h>
-// // TODO remove when switching to Go 1.7
-// #include <string.h>
+// #include "util.h"
 import "C"
 
-// TODO move this to C.CBytes() when switching to Go 1.7
-
 // We want Go itself to complain when we're out of memory.
 // The allocators in cgo *should* do this, but there isn't a
 // C.CMalloc(). There *is* a C.CBytes(), however, for transferring
 // binary blobs from Go to C. If we pass this an arbitrary slice
 // of the desired length, we get our C.CMalloc(). Using a slice
-// that's always initialized to zero gives us the ZeroMemory()
-// for free.
-var uimallocBytes = make([]byte, 1024)		// 1024 bytes first
+// that's always initialized to zero gives us the memset(0)
+// (or ZeroMemory()) for free.
+var allocBytes = make([]byte, 1024)		// 1024 bytes first
 
-//export uimalloc
-func uimalloc(n C.size_t) unsafe.Pointer {
-	if n > C.size_t(len(uimallocBytes)) {
+//export pkguiAlloc
+func pkguiAlloc(n C.size_t) unsafe.Pointer {
+	if n > C.size_t(len(allocBytes)) {
 		// TODO round n up to a multiple of a power of 2?
 		// for instance 0x1234 bytes -> 0x1800 bytes
-		uimallocBytes = make([]byte, n)
+		allocBytes = make([]byte, n)
 	}
-	p := C.malloc(n)
-	if p == nil {
-		panic("out of memory in uimalloc()")
-	}
-	C.memset(p, 0, n)
-	return p
+	return C.CBytes(allocBytes[:n])
 }
 
 func freestr(str *C.char) {
diff --git a/util.h b/util.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3354234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util.h
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// 12 august 2018
+
+extern void *pkguiAlloc(size_t);