added README

Cargo.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "malloc-array"
 description = "libc heap array allocator"
-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "1.1.0"
 authors = ["Avril <flanchan@cumallover.me>"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "GPL-3.0-or-later"

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# malloc-array - `Vec<T>` like `malloc()` wrapper
+
+This crate provides a `vec!`-like macro, `heap!` for creating arrays managed with `malloc()` and `free()`. It also provides the container type `HeapArray<T>` as a safe wrapper around these.
+
+See [documentation] for more details.
+
+[documentation]: https://docs.rs/malloc-array
+
+## Macro usage
+
+### Creating zero-initialised arrays.
+These are created with `calloc()`.
+``` rust
+heap![Type, size];
+```
+Note that if `Type` does not support zero-initialisation it is undefined behaviour to drop or access any element of the returned array. To assign without dropping see the associated function [replace_and_forget]:
+
+``` rust
+let mut array = heap![String; 3];
+array.replace_and_forget(0, format!("snibbedy"));
+array.replace_and_forget(1, format!("snab"));
+array.replace_and_forget(2, format!(":D"));
+
+drop(array); // This is now safe.
+```
+
+ [replace_and_forget]: https://docs.rs/malloc-array/1.0.0/malloc_array/struct.HeapArray.html#method.replace_and_forget
+
+### Creating initialised arrays.
+These are created with `malloc()` and set with `replace_and_forget` (or, for the special case of `u8` sized types, `memset`).
+``` rust
+heap![expression; size];
+```
+
+### Creating n-element arrays.
+These are created with `malloc()` and set with `replace_and_forget`.
+``` rust
+heap![expression_one, expression_two];
+```
+
+### Creating empty arrays.
+These are created with either `malloc(0)`, or if the `zst_noalloc` feature is enabled they do not allocate.
+``` rust
+heap![];
+```
+`zst_noalloc` is enabled by default and causes instances with `len_bytes() == 0` to have `NULL` internal pointers instead of dangling ones returned by `malloc(0)`.
+This behaviour my not be desireable and if it is not, disable the default featues.
+
+### Dropping on free
+Arrays created this way are dropped in a way that ensures each element is also dropped. For anything implementing the `Copy` trait, this is redundant.
+To avoid this, pass the keyword `unsafe` to any of the above macro definitions:
+``` rust
+let bytes = heap![unsafe u8; 32]; //`u8` does not need to be dropped. 
+let references = heap![unsafe ":D"; 10]; //Neither does `&'static str`.
+```
+Note that if the type does implement the `Drop` trait, then unless the elements are dropped manually (see [into_iter]) dropping the array can cause a resource leak.
+
+ [into_iter]: https://docs.rs/malloc-array/1.0.0/malloc_array/struct.IntoIter.html
+
+# License
+GPL'd with love <3

src/lib.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn non_trivial_type() {
 	let heap = heap!["test one".to_owned(), "test two".to_owned()];
-
+	let refs = heap![unsafe "test three"; 2];
+	
+	assert_eq!(&refs[..], &["test three", "test three"]);
 	assert_eq!(heap.as_slice(), ["test one", "test two"]);
     }
 
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn reinterpret()
     {
-	let heap = heap![u8; 32];
+	let heap = heap![0u8; 32];
 	unsafe {
 	    let heap = heap.reinterpret::<i32>();
 	    assert_eq!(heap.len(), 8);
@@ -184,9 +186,17 @@ macro_rules! heap {
 	{
 	    let num = $number;
 	    let mut ha = $crate::HeapArray::new_uninit(num);
-	    
-	    for x in 0..num {
-		ha.replace_and_forget(x, $value);
+
+	    if ha.len() == ha.len_bytes() && ha.len() > 0 {
+		unsafe {
+		    let mut vl = $value;
+		    
+		    ha.set_memory(*std::mem::transmute::<_, &mut u8>(&mut vl));
+		}
+	    } else {
+		for x in 0..num {
+		    ha.replace_and_forget(x, $value);
+		}
 	    }
 	    
 	    ha
@@ -244,6 +254,12 @@ impl<T> HeapArray<T>
 	std::mem::size_of::<T>() == 1
     }
 
+    /// Set each byte to a value.
+    pub unsafe fn set_memory(&mut self, value: u8)
+    {
+	ptr::memset(self.ptr as *mut u8, value, self.len_bytes());
+    }
+
     /// Creates a new `HeapArray<T>` from zeroed memory.
     pub fn new(size: usize) -> Self
     {