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authorJohn Gilmore <gnu@cygnus>1990-09-05 17:54:31 +0000
committerJohn Gilmore <gnu@cygnus>1990-09-05 17:54:31 +0000
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-/*
- alloca -- (mostly) portable public-domain implementation -- D A Gwyn
-
- last edit: 86/05/30 rms
- include config.h, since on VMS it renames some symbols.
- Use xmalloc instead of malloc.
-
- This implementation of the PWB library alloca() function,
- which is used to allocate space off the run-time stack so
- that it is automatically reclaimed upon procedure exit,
- was inspired by discussions with J. Q. Johnson of Cornell.
-
- It should work under any C implementation that uses an
- actual procedure stack (as opposed to a linked list of
- frames). There are some preprocessor constants that can
- be defined when compiling for your specific system, for
- improved efficiency; however, the defaults should be okay.
-
- The general concept of this implementation is to keep
- track of all alloca()-allocated blocks, and reclaim any
- that are found to be deeper in the stack than the current
- invocation. This heuristic does not reclaim storage as
- soon as it becomes invalid, but it will do so eventually.
-
- As a special case, alloca(0) reclaims storage without
- allocating any. It is a good idea to use alloca(0) in
- your main control loop, etc. to force garbage collection.
-*/
-#ifndef lint
-static char SCCSid[] = "@(#)alloca.c 1.1"; /* for the "what" utility */
-#endif
-
-#ifdef emacs
-#include "config.h"
-#ifdef static
-/* actually, only want this if static is defined as ""
- -- this is for usg, in which emacs must undefine static
- in order to make unexec workable
- */
-#ifndef STACK_DIRECTION
-you
-lose
--- must know STACK_DIRECTION at compile-time
-#endif /* STACK_DIRECTION undefined */
-#endif static
-#endif emacs
-
-#ifdef X3J11
-typedef void *pointer; /* generic pointer type */
-#else
-typedef char *pointer; /* generic pointer type */
-#endif
-
-#define NULL 0 /* null pointer constant */
-
-extern void free();
-extern pointer xmalloc();
-
-/*
- Define STACK_DIRECTION if you know the direction of stack
- growth for your system; otherwise it will be automatically
- deduced at run-time.
-
- STACK_DIRECTION > 0 => grows toward higher addresses
- STACK_DIRECTION < 0 => grows toward lower addresses
- STACK_DIRECTION = 0 => direction of growth unknown
-*/
-
-#ifndef STACK_DIRECTION
-#define STACK_DIRECTION 0 /* direction unknown */
-#endif
-
-#if STACK_DIRECTION != 0
-
-#define STACK_DIR STACK_DIRECTION /* known at compile-time */
-
-#else /* STACK_DIRECTION == 0; need run-time code */
-
-static int stack_dir; /* 1 or -1 once known */
-#define STACK_DIR stack_dir
-
-static void
-find_stack_direction (/* void */)
-{
- static char *addr = NULL; /* address of first
- `dummy', once known */
- auto char dummy; /* to get stack address */
-
- if (addr == NULL)
- { /* initial entry */
- addr = &dummy;
-
- find_stack_direction (); /* recurse once */
- }
- else /* second entry */
- if (&dummy > addr)
- stack_dir = 1; /* stack grew upward */
- else
- stack_dir = -1; /* stack grew downward */
-}
-
-#endif /* STACK_DIRECTION == 0 */
-
-/*
- An "alloca header" is used to:
- (a) chain together all alloca()ed blocks;
- (b) keep track of stack depth.
-
- It is very important that sizeof(header) agree with malloc()
- alignment chunk size. The following default should work okay.
-*/
-
-#ifndef ALIGN_SIZE
-#define ALIGN_SIZE sizeof(double)
-#endif
-
-typedef union hdr
-{
- char align[ALIGN_SIZE]; /* to force sizeof(header) */
- struct
- {
- union hdr *next; /* for chaining headers */
- char *deep; /* for stack depth measure */
- } h;
-} header;
-
-/*
- alloca( size ) returns a pointer to at least `size' bytes of
- storage which will be automatically reclaimed upon exit from
- the procedure that called alloca(). Originally, this space
- was supposed to be taken from the current stack frame of the
- caller, but that method cannot be made to work for some
- implementations of C, for example under Gould's UTX/32.
-*/
-
-static header *last_alloca_header = NULL; /* -> last alloca header */
-
-pointer
-alloca (size) /* returns pointer to storage */
- unsigned size; /* # bytes to allocate */
-{
- auto char probe; /* probes stack depth: */
- register char *depth = &probe;
-
-#if STACK_DIRECTION == 0
- if (STACK_DIR == 0) /* unknown growth direction */
- find_stack_direction ();
-#endif
-
- /* Reclaim garbage, defined as all alloca()ed storage that
- was allocated from deeper in the stack than currently. */
-
- {
- register header *hp; /* traverses linked list */
-
- for (hp = last_alloca_header; hp != NULL;)
- if (STACK_DIR > 0 && hp->h.deep > depth
- || STACK_DIR < 0 && hp->h.deep < depth)
- {
- register header *np = hp->h.next;
-
- free ((pointer) hp); /* collect garbage */
-
- hp = np; /* -> next header */
- }
- else
- break; /* rest are not deeper */
-
- last_alloca_header = hp; /* -> last valid storage */
- }
-
- if (size == 0)
- return NULL; /* no allocation required */
-
- /* Allocate combined header + user data storage. */
-
- {
- register pointer new = xmalloc (sizeof (header) + size);
- /* address of header */
-
- ((header *)new)->h.next = last_alloca_header;
- ((header *)new)->h.deep = depth;
-
- last_alloca_header = (header *)new;
-
- /* User storage begins just after header. */
-
- return (pointer)((char *)new + sizeof(header));
- }
-}
-