EMEM : a simple and FAST api to allocate memory that will be automatically freed() when the next packet is dissected.

This offesr memory allocation with a packet  scope making memory leaks less likely and memory management faster.


Add initialization calls for both tethereal and ethereal.

Convert the ip_to_str() function to use this and avoid doing the silly rotating buffers thing it previously did.


We also need an equivalent set of functions for allocation with capture file scope (free when next capture is loaded) but i dont know where to put the free_all call.



svn path=/trunk/; revision=14984

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tethereal.c b/tethereal.c
index 4bedfabfb0..5e499deb3a 100644
--- a/tethereal.c
+++ b/tethereal.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 #endif /* _WIN32 */
 #include "capture.h"
 #endif /* HAVE_LIBPCAP */
-
+#include "epan/emem.h"
 
 /*
  * This is the template for the decode as option; it is shared between the
@@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
   dfilter_t           *rfcode = NULL;
   e_prefs             *prefs;
   char                 badopt;
+
+  /* initialize memory allocation subsystem */
+  ep_init_chunk();
   
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP
   capture_opts_init(&capture_opts, NULL /* cfile */);