andlabs-ui/util.go

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Go

// 12 december 2015
package ui
import (
"unsafe"
)
// #include <stdlib.h>
// // TODO remove when switching to Go 1.7
// #include <string.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
//export uimalloc
func uimalloc(n C.size_t) unsafe.Pointer {
if n > C.size_t(len(uimallocBytes)) {
// TODO round n up to a multiple of a power of 2?
// for instance 0x1234 bytes -> 0x1800 bytes
uimallocBytes = make([]byte, n)
}
p := C.malloc(n)
if p == nil {
panic("out of memory in uimalloc()")
}
C.memset(p, 0, n)
return p
}
func freestr(str *C.char) {
C.free(unsafe.Pointer(str))
}
func tobool(b C.int) bool {
return b != 0
}
func frombool(b bool) C.int {
if b {
return 1
}
return 0
}