role ops are usually only sparsely filled, there are currently 20
function pointers but several roles only fill in two. No single
role has more than 14 of the ops. On a 32/64 bit build this part
of the ops struct takes a fixed 80 / 160 bytes then.
First reduce the type of the callback reason part from uint16_t to
uint8_t, this saves 12 bytes unconditionally.
Change to a separate function pointer array with a nybble index
array, it costs 10 bytes for the index and a pointer to the
separate array, for 32-bit the cost is
2 + (4 x ops_used)
and for 64-bit
6 + (8 x ops_used)
for 2 x ops_used it means 32-bit: 10 vs 80 / 64-bit: 22 vs 160
For a typical system with h1 (9), h2 (14), listen (2), netlink (2),
pipe (1), raw_skt (3), ws (12), == 43 ops_used out of 140, it means
the .rodata for this reduced from 32-bit: 560 -> 174 (386 byte
saving) and 64-bit: 1120 -> 350 (770 byte saving)
This doesn't account for the changed function ops calling code, two
ways were tried, a preprocessor macro and explicit functions
For an x86_64 gcc 10 build with most options, release mode,
.text + .rodata
before patch: 553282
accessor macro: 552714 (568 byte saving)
accessor functions: 553674 (392 bytes worse than without patch)
therefore we went with the macros
This has no effect on user code or backward compatibility.
It moves the in-tree public api header libwebsockets.h from ./lib
to ./include, and introduces a dir ./include/libwebsockets/
The single public api header is split out into 31 sub-headers
in ./include/libwebsockets. ./include/libwebsockets.h contains
some core types and platform adaptation code, but the rest of it
is now 31 #include <libwebsockets/...>
At install time, /usr/[local/]include/libwebsockets.h is installed
as before, along now with the 31 sub-headers in ...include/libwebsockets/
There's no net effect on user code.
But the api header is now much easier to maintain and study, with 31
topic-based sub headers.
You can build lws without support for ws, with -DLWS_ROLE_WS=0.
This is thanks to the role ops isolating all the ws-specific business
in the ws role.
Also retire more test apps replaced by minmal-examples.