1 /* Safe automatic memory allocation.
2 Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
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 2, or (at your option)
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, write to the Free Software Foundation,
17 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
32 /* safe_alloca(N) is equivalent to alloca(N) when it is safe to call
33 alloca(N); otherwise it returns NULL. It either returns N bytes of
34 memory allocated on the stack, that lasts until the function returns,
36 Use of safe_alloca should be avoided:
37 - inside arguments of function calls - undefined behaviour,
38 - in inline functions - the allocation may actually last until the
39 calling function returns.
42 /* The OS usually guarantees only one guard page at the bottom of the stack,
43 and a page size can be as small as 4096 bytes. So we cannot safely
44 allocate anything larger than 4096 bytes. Also care for the possibility
45 of a few compiler-allocated temporary stack slots.
46 This must be a macro, not an inline function. */
47 # define safe_alloca(N) ((N) < 4032 ? alloca (N) : NULL)
49 # define safe_alloca(N) ((N), NULL)
52 /* allocsa(N) is a safe variant of alloca(N). It allocates N bytes of
53 memory allocated on the stack, that must be freed using freesa() before
54 the function returns. Upon failure, it returns NULL. */
57 ((N) < 4032 - sa_increment \
58 ? (void *) ((char *) alloca ((N) + sa_increment) + sa_increment) \
64 extern void * mallocsa (size_t n
);
66 /* Free a block of memory allocated through allocsa(). */
68 extern void freesa (void *p
);
73 /* Maybe we should also define a variant
74 nallocsa (size_t n, size_t s) - behaves like allocsa (n * s)
75 If this would be useful in your application. please speak up. */
83 /* ------------------- Auxiliary, non-public definitions ------------------- */
85 /* Determine the alignment of a type at compile time. */
87 # define sa_alignof __alignof__
88 #elif defined __cplusplus
89 template <class type
> struct sa_alignof_helper
{ char __slot1
; type __slot2
; };
90 # define sa_alignof(type) offsetof (sa_alignof_helper<type>, __slot2)
92 /* Work around a HP-UX 10.20 cc bug with enums constants defined as offsetof
94 # define sa_alignof(type) (sizeof (type) <= 4 ? 4 : 8)
96 /* Work around an AIX 3.2.5 xlc bug with enums constants defined as offsetof
98 # define sa_alignof(type) 4
100 # define sa_alignof(type) offsetof (struct { char __slot1; type __slot2; }, __slot2)
105 /* The desired alignment of memory allocations is the maximum alignment
106 among all elementary types. */
107 sa_alignment_long
= sa_alignof (long),
108 sa_alignment_double
= sa_alignof (double),
109 #ifdef HAVE_LONG_LONG
110 sa_alignment_longlong
= sa_alignof (long long),
112 #ifdef HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE
113 sa_alignment_longdouble
= sa_alignof (long double),
115 sa_alignment_max
= ((sa_alignment_long
- 1) | (sa_alignment_double
- 1)
116 #ifdef HAVE_LONG_LONG
117 | (sa_alignment_longlong
- 1)
119 #ifdef HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE
120 | (sa_alignment_longdouble
- 1)
123 /* The increment that guarantees room for a magic word must be >= sizeof (int)
124 and a multiple of sa_alignment_max. */
125 sa_increment
= ((sizeof (int) + sa_alignment_max
- 1) / sa_alignment_max
) * sa_alignment_max
128 #endif /* _ALLOCSA_H */