1 /* alloca.c -- allocate automatically reclaimed memory
2 (Mostly) portable public-domain implementation -- D A Gwyn
4 This implementation of the PWB library alloca function,
5 which is used to allocate space off the run-time stack so
6 that it is automatically reclaimed upon procedure exit,
7 was inspired by discussions with J. Q. Johnson of Cornell.
8 J.Otto Tennant <jot@cray.com> contributed the Cray support.
10 There are some preprocessor constants that can
11 be defined when compiling for your specific system, for
12 improved efficiency; however, the defaults should be okay.
14 The general concept of this implementation is to keep
15 track of all alloca-allocated blocks, and reclaim any
16 that are found to be deeper in the stack than the current
17 invocation. This heuristic does not reclaim storage as
18 soon as it becomes invalid, but it will do so eventually.
20 As a special case, alloca(0) reclaims storage without
21 allocating any. It is a good idea to use alloca(0) in
22 your main control loop, etc. to force garbage collection. */
26 @deftypefn Replacement void* alloca (size_t @var{size})
28 This function allocates memory which will be automatically reclaimed
29 after the procedure exits. The @libib{} implementation does not free
30 the memory immediately but will do so eventually during subsequent
31 calls to this function. Memory is allocated using @code{xmalloc} under
34 The header file @file{alloca-conf.h} can be used in conjunction with the
35 GNU Autoconf test @code{AC_FUNC_ALLOCA} to test for and properly make
36 available this function. The @code{AC_FUNC_ALLOCA} test requires that
37 client code use a block of preprocessor code to be safe (see the Autoconf
38 manual for more); this header incorporates that logic and more, including
39 the possibility of a GCC built-in function.
49 #include <libiberty.h>
58 /* These variables are used by the ASTRDUP implementation that relies
60 const char *libiberty_optr
;
62 unsigned long libiberty_len
;
64 /* If your stack is a linked list of frames, you have to
65 provide an "address metric" ADDRESS_FUNCTION macro. */
67 #if defined (CRAY) && defined (CRAY_STACKSEG_END)
68 static long i00afunc ();
69 #define ADDRESS_FUNCTION(arg) (char *) i00afunc (&(arg))
71 #define ADDRESS_FUNCTION(arg) &(arg)
78 /* Define STACK_DIRECTION if you know the direction of stack
79 growth for your system; otherwise it will be automatically
82 STACK_DIRECTION > 0 => grows toward higher addresses
83 STACK_DIRECTION < 0 => grows toward lower addresses
84 STACK_DIRECTION = 0 => direction of growth unknown */
86 #ifndef STACK_DIRECTION
87 #define STACK_DIRECTION 0 /* Direction unknown. */
90 #if STACK_DIRECTION != 0
92 #define STACK_DIR STACK_DIRECTION /* Known at compile-time. */
94 #else /* STACK_DIRECTION == 0; need run-time code. */
96 static int stack_dir
; /* 1 or -1 once known. */
97 #define STACK_DIR stack_dir
100 find_stack_direction (void)
102 static char *addr
= NULL
; /* Address of first `dummy', once known. */
103 auto char dummy
; /* To get stack address. */
106 { /* Initial entry. */
107 addr
= ADDRESS_FUNCTION (dummy
);
109 find_stack_direction (); /* Recurse once. */
114 if (ADDRESS_FUNCTION (dummy
) > addr
)
115 stack_dir
= 1; /* Stack grew upward. */
117 stack_dir
= -1; /* Stack grew downward. */
121 #endif /* STACK_DIRECTION == 0 */
123 /* An "alloca header" is used to:
124 (a) chain together all alloca'ed blocks;
125 (b) keep track of stack depth.
127 It is very important that sizeof(header) agree with malloc
128 alignment chunk size. The following default should work okay. */
131 #define ALIGN_SIZE sizeof(double)
136 char align
[ALIGN_SIZE
]; /* To force sizeof(header). */
139 union hdr
*next
; /* For chaining headers. */
140 char *deep
; /* For stack depth measure. */
144 static header
*last_alloca_header
= NULL
; /* -> last alloca header. */
146 /* Return a pointer to at least SIZE bytes of storage,
147 which will be automatically reclaimed upon exit from
148 the procedure that called alloca. Originally, this space
149 was supposed to be taken from the current stack frame of the
150 caller, but that method cannot be made to work for some
151 implementations of C, for example under Gould's UTX/32. */
153 /* @undocumented C_alloca */
156 C_alloca (size_t size
)
158 auto char probe
; /* Probes stack depth: */
159 register char *depth
= ADDRESS_FUNCTION (probe
);
161 #if STACK_DIRECTION == 0
162 if (STACK_DIR
== 0) /* Unknown growth direction. */
163 find_stack_direction ();
166 /* Reclaim garbage, defined as all alloca'd storage that
167 was allocated from deeper in the stack than currently. */
170 register header
*hp
; /* Traverses linked list. */
172 for (hp
= last_alloca_header
; hp
!= NULL
;)
173 if ((STACK_DIR
> 0 && hp
->h
.deep
> depth
)
174 || (STACK_DIR
< 0 && hp
->h
.deep
< depth
))
176 register header
*np
= hp
->h
.next
;
178 free ((PTR
) hp
); /* Collect garbage. */
180 hp
= np
; /* -> next header. */
183 break; /* Rest are not deeper. */
185 last_alloca_header
= hp
; /* -> last valid storage. */
189 return NULL
; /* No allocation required. */
191 /* Allocate combined header + user data storage. */
194 register PTR
new = xmalloc (sizeof (header
) + size
);
195 /* Address of header. */
200 ((header
*) new)->h
.next
= last_alloca_header
;
201 ((header
*) new)->h
.deep
= depth
;
203 last_alloca_header
= (header
*) new;
205 /* User storage begins just after header. */
207 return (PTR
) ((char *) new + sizeof (header
));
211 #if defined (CRAY) && defined (CRAY_STACKSEG_END)
213 #ifdef DEBUG_I00AFUNC
220 /* Stack structures for CRAY-1, CRAY X-MP, and CRAY Y-MP */
221 struct stack_control_header
223 long shgrow
:32; /* Number of times stack has grown. */
224 long shaseg
:32; /* Size of increments to stack. */
225 long shhwm
:32; /* High water mark of stack. */
226 long shsize
:32; /* Current size of stack (all segments). */
229 /* The stack segment linkage control information occurs at
230 the high-address end of a stack segment. (The stack
231 grows from low addresses to high addresses.) The initial
232 part of the stack segment linkage control information is
233 0200 (octal) words. This provides for register storage
234 for the routine which overflows the stack. */
236 struct stack_segment_linkage
238 long ss
[0200]; /* 0200 overflow words. */
239 long sssize
:32; /* Number of words in this segment. */
240 long ssbase
:32; /* Offset to stack base. */
242 long sspseg
:32; /* Offset to linkage control of previous
245 long sstcpt
:32; /* Pointer to task common address block. */
246 long sscsnm
; /* Private control structure number for
248 long ssusr1
; /* Reserved for user. */
249 long ssusr2
; /* Reserved for user. */
250 long sstpid
; /* Process ID for pid based multi-tasking. */
251 long ssgvup
; /* Pointer to multitasking thread giveup. */
252 long sscray
[7]; /* Reserved for Cray Research. */
272 /* The following structure defines the vector of words
273 returned by the STKSTAT library routine. */
276 long now
; /* Current total stack size. */
277 long maxc
; /* Amount of contiguous space which would
278 be required to satisfy the maximum
279 stack demand to date. */
280 long high_water
; /* Stack high-water mark. */
281 long overflows
; /* Number of stack overflow ($STKOFEN) calls. */
282 long hits
; /* Number of internal buffer hits. */
283 long extends
; /* Number of block extensions. */
284 long stko_mallocs
; /* Block allocations by $STKOFEN. */
285 long underflows
; /* Number of stack underflow calls ($STKRETN). */
286 long stko_free
; /* Number of deallocations by $STKRETN. */
287 long stkm_free
; /* Number of deallocations by $STKMRET. */
288 long segments
; /* Current number of stack segments. */
289 long maxs
; /* Maximum number of stack segments so far. */
290 long pad_size
; /* Stack pad size. */
291 long current_address
; /* Current stack segment address. */
292 long current_size
; /* Current stack segment size. This
293 number is actually corrupted by STKSTAT to
294 include the fifteen word trailer area. */
295 long initial_address
; /* Address of initial segment. */
296 long initial_size
; /* Size of initial segment. */
299 /* The following structure describes the data structure which trails
300 any stack segment. I think that the description in 'asdef' is
301 out of date. I only describe the parts that I am sure about. */
305 long this_address
; /* Address of this block. */
306 long this_size
; /* Size of this block (does not include
310 long link
; /* Address of trailer block of previous
325 #endif /* not CRAY_STACK */
328 /* Determine a "stack measure" for an arbitrary ADDRESS.
329 I doubt that "lint" will like this much. */
332 i00afunc (long *address
)
334 struct stk_stat status
;
335 struct stk_trailer
*trailer
;
339 /* We want to iterate through all of the segments. The first
340 step is to get the stack status structure. We could do this
341 more quickly and more directly, perhaps, by referencing the
342 $LM00 common block, but I know that this works. */
346 /* Set up the iteration. */
348 trailer
= (struct stk_trailer
*) (status
.current_address
349 + status
.current_size
352 /* There must be at least one stack segment. Therefore it is
353 a fatal error if "trailer" is null. */
358 /* Discard segments that do not contain our argument address. */
362 block
= (long *) trailer
->this_address
;
363 size
= trailer
->this_size
;
364 if (block
== 0 || size
== 0)
366 trailer
= (struct stk_trailer
*) trailer
->link
;
367 if ((block
<= address
) && (address
< (block
+ size
)))
371 /* Set the result to the offset in this segment and add the sizes
372 of all predecessor segments. */
374 result
= address
- block
;
383 if (trailer
->this_size
<= 0)
385 result
+= trailer
->this_size
;
386 trailer
= (struct stk_trailer
*) trailer
->link
;
388 while (trailer
!= 0);
390 /* We are done. Note that if you present a bogus address (one
391 not in any segment), you will get a different number back, formed
392 from subtracting the address of the first block. This is probably
393 not what you want. */
398 #else /* not CRAY2 */
399 /* Stack address function for a CRAY-1, CRAY X-MP, or CRAY Y-MP.
400 Determine the number of the cell within the stack,
401 given the address of the cell. The purpose of this
402 routine is to linearize, in some sense, stack addresses
406 i00afunc (long address
)
410 long size
, pseg
, this_segment
, stack
;
413 struct stack_segment_linkage
*ssptr
;
415 /* Register B67 contains the address of the end of the
416 current stack segment. If you (as a subprogram) store
417 your registers on the stack and find that you are past
418 the contents of B67, you have overflowed the segment.
420 B67 also points to the stack segment linkage control
421 area, which is what we are really interested in. */
423 stkl
= CRAY_STACKSEG_END ();
424 ssptr
= (struct stack_segment_linkage
*) stkl
;
426 /* If one subtracts 'size' from the end of the segment,
427 one has the address of the first word of the segment.
429 If this is not the first segment, 'pseg' will be
432 pseg
= ssptr
->sspseg
;
433 size
= ssptr
->sssize
;
435 this_segment
= stkl
- size
;
437 /* It is possible that calling this routine itself caused
438 a stack overflow. Discard stack segments which do not
439 contain the target address. */
441 while (!(this_segment
<= address
&& address
<= stkl
))
443 #ifdef DEBUG_I00AFUNC
444 fprintf (stderr
, "%011o %011o %011o\n", this_segment
, address
, stkl
);
449 ssptr
= (struct stack_segment_linkage
*) stkl
;
450 size
= ssptr
->sssize
;
451 pseg
= ssptr
->sspseg
;
452 this_segment
= stkl
- size
;
455 result
= address
- this_segment
;
457 /* If you subtract pseg from the current end of the stack,
458 you get the address of the previous stack segment's end.
459 This seems a little convoluted to me, but I'll bet you save
460 a cycle somewhere. */
464 #ifdef DEBUG_I00AFUNC
465 fprintf (stderr
, "%011o %011o\n", pseg
, size
);
468 ssptr
= (struct stack_segment_linkage
*) stkl
;
469 size
= ssptr
->sssize
;
470 pseg
= ssptr
->sspseg
;
476 #endif /* not CRAY2 */