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ebf3fc89ff Introduce allocator abstraction
We now no longer call malloc/free/... directly, but use an allocator object
that is passed around.

This was mainly done as a preparation for a garbage collector: The
collector will need to know, how much memory we're using, introducing the
collector abstraction will allow the GC to hook into the memory allocation
and observe the memory usage.

This has other potential applications:

- We could now be embedded into applications that can't use the libc
  allocator.
- There could be an allocator that limits the total amount of used memory,
  e.g. for sandboxing purposes.
- In our tests we could use this to simulate out of memory conditions
  (implement an allocator that fails at the n-th allocation, increase n by
  one and restart the test until there are no more faked OOM conditions).

The function signature of the allocator is basically exactly the same as
the one Lua uses.
2022-02-08 22:53:13 +01:00
d81bef9184 parser/tokenizer: Save textual data as refcounted strings
This avoids creating refcounted strings during evaluation and makes it
easier to use the same parsed string in multiple places (should be
useful once we implement functions).
2022-01-18 21:18:27 +01:00
6439f4f8ce Tokenizer: Disallow ASCII control characters outside strings 2022-01-07 23:39:06 +01:00
c288c333ca Continue work on parser
Seems that we can parse most things now :). Assignments don't work yet,
thoug. Also we're currently leaking memory pretty badly.
2021-12-15 21:47:17 +01:00
d094ed7bd5 Initial commit 2021-12-15 21:47:17 +01:00