1 /* Safe automatic memory allocation.
2 Copyright (C) 2003-2007, 2009-2011 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 3, 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) ((void) (N), NULL)
52 /* malloca(N) is a safe variant of alloca(N). It allocates N bytes of
53 memory allocated on the stack, that must be freed using freea() 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 * mmalloca (size_t n
);
66 /* Free a block of memory allocated through malloca(). */
68 extern void freea (void *p
);
73 /* nmalloca(N,S) is an overflow-safe variant of malloca (N * S).
74 It allocates an array of N objects, each with S bytes of memory,
75 on the stack. S must be positive and N must be nonnegative.
76 The array must be freed using freea() before the function returns. */
78 /* Cf. the definition of xalloc_oversized. */
79 # define nmalloca(n, s) \
80 ((n) > (size_t) (sizeof (ptrdiff_t) <= sizeof (size_t) ? -1 : -2) / (s) \
82 : malloca ((n) * (s)))
84 extern void * nmalloca (size_t n
, size_t s
);
93 /* ------------------- Auxiliary, non-public definitions ------------------- */
95 /* Determine the alignment of a type at compile time. */
97 # define sa_alignof __alignof__
98 #elif defined __cplusplus
99 template <class type
> struct sa_alignof_helper
{ char __slot1
; type __slot2
; };
100 # define sa_alignof(type) offsetof (sa_alignof_helper<type>, __slot2)
102 /* Work around a HP-UX 10.20 cc bug with enums constants defined as offsetof
104 # define sa_alignof(type) (sizeof (type) <= 4 ? 4 : 8)
106 /* Work around an AIX 3.2.5 xlc bug with enums constants defined as offsetof
108 # define sa_alignof(type) (sizeof (type) <= 4 ? 4 : 8)
110 # define sa_alignof(type) offsetof (struct { char __slot1; type __slot2; }, __slot2)
115 /* The desired alignment of memory allocations is the maximum alignment
116 among all elementary types. */
117 sa_alignment_long
= sa_alignof (long),
118 sa_alignment_double
= sa_alignof (double),
119 #if HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT
120 sa_alignment_longlong
= sa_alignof (long long),
122 sa_alignment_longdouble
= sa_alignof (long double),
123 sa_alignment_max
= ((sa_alignment_long
- 1) | (sa_alignment_double
- 1)
124 #if HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT
125 | (sa_alignment_longlong
- 1)
127 | (sa_alignment_longdouble
- 1)
129 /* The increment that guarantees room for a magic word must be >= sizeof (int)
130 and a multiple of sa_alignment_max. */
131 sa_increment
= ((sizeof (int) + sa_alignment_max
- 1) / sa_alignment_max
) * sa_alignment_max
134 #endif /* _MALLOCA_H */