Just for clarification, no plans to remove libc dependency, just did some code analysis to see how much raylib depend on stardard C library. My conclusions:
- stdlib.h: primary dependency is for malloc() and free()
- stdio.h: primary dependency is for FILE access, maybe it could go through a custom ABI?
- string.h: just around 8 functions required
- math.h: just around 8 functions required
- others: 1-2 functions required for some other headers
Changes:
- Font structure has been redesigned, CharInfo structure contained character rectangle within font texture, it has not much sense, considering that it was an information relative to the font atlas generated and not the character itself, so character rectangles have been moved out from CharInfo to Font.
- CharInfo included a data parameters to contain character pixel data (usually grayscale), generated on TTF font generation. It was inconsistent with other fonts types, so, now CharInfo includes directly an Image of the glyph.
- REDESIGNED: GenImageFontAtlas(), additional recs parameter added, loaded and filled inside the function to export atlas characters rectangles, instead of silently modify the input CharInfo data.
- REVIEWED: ImageTextEx(), funtion retrieved the font atlas image from the GPU, that was slow and problematic in several platforms. Now it uses directly the CharInfo image. Support for unicode codepoints has also been added.
- REDESIGNED: ImageDraw(), now it includes an additional parameter, the color tint, not only it could be useful for several situations but also function signature is more consistent with similar functions.
- ADDED: ImageFromImage() to generate a new image from a piece of another image.
- REVIEWED: GetNextCodepoint(), renamed parameters to be more clear.
Also all examples and games that were affected by those changes have been reviewed.
Users can define their custom memory management macros.
NOTE: Most external libraries support custom macros in the same way, raylib should redefine those macros to raylib ones, to unify custom memory loading. That redefinition is only implemented as example for stb_image.h in [textures] module.
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