1 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 * This file contains basic declarations for relative pointers.
6 * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2024, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
7 * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
9 * src/include/utils/relptr.h
11 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
18 * Relative pointers are intended to be used when storing an address that may
19 * be relative either to the base of the process's address space or some
20 * dynamic shared memory segment mapped therein.
22 * The idea here is that you declare a relative pointer as relptr(type)
23 * and then use relptr_access to dereference it and relptr_store to change
24 * it. The use of a union here is a hack, because what's stored in the
25 * relptr is always a Size, never an actual pointer. But including a pointer
26 * in the union allows us to use stupid macro tricks to provide some measure
29 #define relptr(type) union { type *relptr_type; Size relptr_off; }
32 * pgindent gets confused by declarations that use "relptr(type)" directly,
33 * so preferred style is to write
34 * typedef struct ... SomeStruct;
35 * relptr_declare(SomeStruct, RelptrSomeStruct);
36 * and then declare pointer variables as "RelptrSomeStruct someptr".
38 #define relptr_declare(type, relptrtype) \
39 typedef relptr(type) relptrtype
41 #ifdef HAVE__BUILTIN_TYPES_COMPATIBLE_P
42 #define relptr_access(base, rp) \
43 (AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(base, char *), \
44 (__typeof__((rp).relptr_type)) ((rp).relptr_off == 0 ? NULL : \
45 (base) + (rp).relptr_off - 1))
48 * If we don't have __builtin_types_compatible_p, assume we might not have
51 #define relptr_access(base, rp) \
52 (AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(base, char *), \
53 (void *) ((rp).relptr_off == 0 ? NULL : (base) + (rp).relptr_off - 1))
56 #define relptr_is_null(rp) \
57 ((rp).relptr_off == 0)
59 #define relptr_offset(rp) \
62 /* We use this inline to avoid double eval of "val" in relptr_store */
64 relptr_store_eval(char *base
, char *val
)
71 return val
- base
+ 1;
75 #ifdef HAVE__BUILTIN_TYPES_COMPATIBLE_P
76 #define relptr_store(base, rp, val) \
77 (AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(base, char *), \
78 AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(val, __typeof__((rp).relptr_type)), \
79 (rp).relptr_off = relptr_store_eval((base), (char *) (val)))
82 * If we don't have __builtin_types_compatible_p, assume we might not have
85 #define relptr_store(base, rp, val) \
86 (AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(base, char *), \
87 (rp).relptr_off = relptr_store_eval((base), (char *) (val)))
90 #define relptr_copy(rp1, rp2) \
91 ((rp1).relptr_off = (rp2).relptr_off)