Just so we're clear: this is NOT a release announcement. Didn't want to
get your hopes up. :)
But recently I added some features to ENet CVS that people were bugging
me about, so I thought I'd just tell you all what they were if you were
in need of them. Or maybe you just want to test them out and make sure
they're stable (which they should be as far as I could test so far).
1. I fixed some places in the event dispatch where it was walking over
all the channels to find appropriates packets to hand off to the user,
such that is basically no longer does evil stuff like this. In other
words: there is no longer any performance penalty for using high numbers
of channels, per se, although it still needs to allocate memory for each
channel, for each client, when you first create the host. But the
dispatching costs of using them are gone.
2. I added a no_memory callback that allows you to override ENet's
standard out-of-memory behavior, which was simply to call abort. Someone
simply wanted the API functions to simply return errors in this case,
and I revised some internals so that you can safely make a null
no_memory handler and get that behavior. The default is just to call
abort, which keeps ENet behaving as it always did, unless you decide to
supply that callback.
3. I used the packed attribute on some sensitive protocol structures
that were causing some protocol incompatibilities on platforms like
ARM+GCC, which appeared to use much different alignment rules than what
x86 and friends were.
4. Nathan Brinks contributed a less crufty autoconf build system.
That out of the way, are there any not too difficult things people would
like to see in 1.2.2?
Lee
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