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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
0384875ef3 values: Split lists into read-only lists and editable lists
This is analogous to dictionaries and ensures that no circular references
can be created when using the exported API in apfl.h.

This also changes apfl_value_copy into apfl_value_incref to better reflect
what it does and to reflect that it is no longer an operation that can
fail.
2022-01-04 23:11:38 +01:00
b29219af25 Make strings in apfl_value refcounted
This avoids copying the string every time we pass it around. Not too
important right now, but will become important onve we're able to evaluate
more complex expressions.
2022-01-02 17:55:44 +01:00
649607ce50 Start work on evaluating expressions
Right now we're only evaluating bool/nil/number/string/list literals, but
it's a start :).
2022-01-02 17:22:22 +01:00
92dc89d3ca Move {=>apfl_}print_indented out of expr.c
We'll soon need it elsewhere.
2022-01-02 16:53:26 +01:00
af33887131 internal: Fix list deinitialization 2021-12-15 21:47:17 +01:00
d094ed7bd5 Initial commit 2021-12-15 21:47:17 +01:00