This formalises my occasional habit of using a single malloc to make a
block that contains a header structure and a data buffer that a field
of the structure will point to, allowing it to be freed in one go
later. Previously I had to do this by hand, losing the type-checking
advantages of snew; now I've written an snew-style macro to do the
job, plus an accessor macro to cleanly get the auxiliary buffer
pointer afterwards, and switched existing instances of the pattern
over to using that.
compile warning ('left-hand operand of comma expression has no
effect'), which of course becomes fatal under -Werror.
(This would have been instantly noticeable to people compiling with
the old-fashioned Makefile.gtk, which does include -Wall -Werror, but
those of us using the new autoconf makefile hadn't noticed.)
[originally from svn r9582]
malloc functions, which automatically cast to the same type they're
allocating the size of. Should prevent any future errors involving
mallocing the size of the wrong structure type, and will also make
life easier if we ever need to turn the PuTTY core code from real C
into C++-friendly C. I haven't touched the Mac frontend in this
checkin because I couldn't compile or test it.
[originally from svn r3014]
smalloc() macros and thence to the safemalloc() functions in misc.c.
This should allow me to plug in a debugging allocator and track
memory leaks and segfaults and things.
[originally from svn r818]
