[fpc-devel] heap.inc evo when

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel wrote:

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>> Am 16.04.2025 um 12:00 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>:
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>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel wrote:
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>>> On 15.04.25 22:52, runewalsh via fpc-devel wrote:
>>>> What’s the position on MR !694? Person with the yellow avatar mentioned in https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/ commit/922457e5b58d76a13ff706f9220d9d6350631930#note_2390656703 there was some discussion somewhere, and that’s all.
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>>> Our main issue is that nobody really feels capable of reviewing it :( The initial contributors of the heap manager are basically gone and nobody else is really that deep into this code to do a review.
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>> Since Runewalsh is deep in it, clearly we're not off worse if we change it :-)
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>> So, in order to progress: we'll throw it in the wild to be field-tested.
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>> So I propose the following: I will add the new heap manager in a new file.
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> Please do it in a way which preserves line history: copy heap.inc to oldheap.inc, add and commit it. Then accept the merge request. Add ifdefs. So heap.inc keeps line history making debugging in the future easier.

I intended to do it more or less so, yes.

Michael.