timespec_get: New module.
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1 /* xmalloc.c -- malloc with out of memory checking
3 Copyright (C) 1990-2000, 2002-2006, 2008-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
18 #include <config.h>
20 #define XALLOC_INLINE _GL_EXTERN_INLINE
22 #include "xalloc.h"
24 #include <stdlib.h>
25 #include <string.h>
27 /* 1 if calloc, malloc and realloc are known to be compatible with GNU.
28 This matters if we are not also using the calloc-gnu, malloc-gnu
29 and realloc-gnu modules, which define HAVE_CALLOC_GNU,
30 HAVE_MALLOC_GNU and HAVE_REALLOC_GNU and support the GNU API even
31 on non-GNU platforms. */
32 #if defined HAVE_CALLOC_GNU || (defined __GLIBC__ && !defined __UCLIBC__)
33 enum { HAVE_GNU_CALLOC = 1 };
34 #else
35 enum { HAVE_GNU_CALLOC = 0 };
36 #endif
37 #if defined HAVE_MALLOC_GNU || (defined __GLIBC__ && !defined __UCLIBC__)
38 enum { HAVE_GNU_MALLOC = 1 };
39 #else
40 enum { HAVE_GNU_MALLOC = 0 };
41 #endif
42 #if defined HAVE_REALLOC_GNU || (defined __GLIBC__ && !defined __UCLIBC__)
43 enum { HAVE_GNU_REALLOC = 1 };
44 #else
45 enum { HAVE_GNU_REALLOC = 0 };
46 #endif
48 /* Allocate N bytes of memory dynamically, with error checking. */
50 void *
51 xmalloc (size_t n)
53 void *p = malloc (n);
54 if (!p && (HAVE_GNU_MALLOC || n))
55 xalloc_die ();
56 return p;
59 /* Change the size of an allocated block of memory P to N bytes,
60 with error checking. */
62 void *
63 xrealloc (void *p, size_t n)
65 if (!HAVE_GNU_REALLOC && !n && p)
67 /* The GNU and C99 realloc behaviors disagree here. Act like GNU. */
68 free (p);
69 return NULL;
72 void *r = realloc (p, n);
73 if (!r && (n || (HAVE_GNU_REALLOC && !p)))
74 xalloc_die ();
75 return r;
78 /* If P is null, allocate a block of at least *PN bytes; otherwise,
79 reallocate P so that it contains more than *PN bytes. *PN must be
80 nonzero unless P is null. Set *PN to the new block's size, and
81 return the pointer to the new block. *PN is never set to zero, and
82 the returned pointer is never null. */
84 void *
85 x2realloc (void *p, size_t *pn)
87 return x2nrealloc (p, pn, 1);
90 /* Allocate N bytes of zeroed memory dynamically, with error checking.
91 There's no need for xnzalloc (N, S), since it would be equivalent
92 to xcalloc (N, S). */
94 void *
95 xzalloc (size_t n)
97 return xcalloc (n, 1);
100 /* Allocate zeroed memory for N elements of S bytes, with error
101 checking. S must be nonzero. */
103 void *
104 xcalloc (size_t n, size_t s)
106 void *p;
107 /* Test for overflow, since objects with size greater than
108 PTRDIFF_MAX cause pointer subtraction to go awry. Omit size-zero
109 tests if HAVE_GNU_CALLOC, since GNU calloc never returns NULL if
110 successful. */
111 if (xalloc_oversized (n, s)
112 || (! (p = calloc (n, s)) && (HAVE_GNU_CALLOC || n != 0)))
113 xalloc_die ();
114 return p;
117 /* Clone an object P of size S, with error checking. There's no need
118 for xnmemdup (P, N, S), since xmemdup (P, N * S) works without any
119 need for an arithmetic overflow check. */
121 void *
122 xmemdup (void const *p, size_t s)
124 return memcpy (xmalloc (s), p, s);
127 /* Clone STRING. */
129 char *
130 xstrdup (char const *string)
132 return xmemdup (string, strlen (string) + 1);