This sets stage to enable use of the property-interface to speed
up things (mildly), the next step to be done. I have also fixed one
regression of yesterday's changes.
... plus a fix for a long-time bug in obj-types.h. That lead to
the object pointer only then to become NULL when the object was
actually destructed, I discovered this issue during
introduction of the pRcvFrom property in msg_t, but it potentially had other
effects, too. I am not sure if some experienced instability resulted from this
bug OR if its fix will cause harm to so-far "correctly" running code. The later
may very well be. Thus I will change it only for the current branch and also
the beta, but not in all old builds. Let's see how things evolve.
some things inside the message can be used over a large number of
messages and need to to be allocated and re-written every time. I now
begin to implement this as a "prop_t" object, first use for the inputName.
Some input modules are already converted, some others to go. Will do
a little performance check on the new method before I go further.
Also, this commit has some cleanup and a few bug fixes that prevented
compiliation in debug mode (I overlooked this as I did not compile
for debug, what I normally do, and the automatted test also does not
do that)
The imdiag module now can very effectively inject messages, which also
frees us from uncertainties of tcp reception and processing. All shell
script based tests have been modularized, what makes it far easier to
create new tests. Also, the test bench now executes more reliable and
much faster, because we can now rely on actual engine information where
we previously did just a dumb sleep.
imdiag was never finished (not even really begun), but now I need it.
I made the few things that are available compile, but more serious
work is required.
pkg-config uses uppercase for its _CFLAGS and _LIBS variable names.
So we follow suit and convert all _cflags and _libs variables to
uppercase for more consistency.
