[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] net/pcap: add libpcap wrappers

[Nick Connolly]

> Complete removal of non-standard dependencies in headers is within a grasp.
> Then we can remove shims and include whatever needed.
> Thoughts?
Sounds good. A couple of 'gotchas' that I've come across (but may not be 
an issue for DPDK):

  * Memory allocation / free that spans a dll boundary (see earlier email).
  * posix_memalign is unfortunately specified as using free(), so we'll
    either have to modify the calls to rte_posix_memalign /
    rte_free_memalign (which means code analysis to find which free
    calls need changing), or wrapper free() to distinguish the two types
    of memory somehow. I 'solved' this for SPDK by using posix_memalign
    for everything and I have a vague recollection that the mingw libc
    does something similar.
  * Sockets are unfortunately specified as using close(). This is
    probably easy to address by rte_ wrapping all socket calls.

Regards,
Nick