[Patch] bitmap_allocator.

[Paolo Carlini]

Dhruv Matani wrote:

>While I'm not entirely happy with this, I'll try converting it back to
>the inline functions and see what happens.
>
I see, please do that and resend the result: actually, in the library we 
strive to
minimize macro usage.

By the way, this is my final report:
1- pthread7-rope fails everywhere: history tells us that poor rope 
failing probably
means there is something wrong at destruction time.
2- Still *lots* of warning about insufficient alignment on ia64: it 
seems you are
still using casts to <unsigned int> and this is definitely not ok: the 
other allocators
guarantee 8 by default (and this can be easily tuned), your allocator 
only 4.  Do you
know that malloc returns memory allocated 16 on 64-bit machines? Please 
try to
achieve at least 8.

That being said, since, for the first time in *months* the build 
succeeds and the
testsuites are good overall, IMO we should commit the changes very soon, 
as soon
as there are no more (very annoying for *everyone* not only to users of 
bitmap)
warnings at build time.

Paolo.