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authorMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>2021-05-16 15:21:18 -0600
committerMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>2021-05-16 15:21:18 -0600
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Enable support for GCC 11 -Wmismatched-dealloc.
To help detect common kinds of memory (and other resource) management bugs, GCC 11 adds support for the detection of mismatched calls to allocation and deallocation functions. At each call site to a known deallocation function GCC checks the set of allocation functions the former can be paired with and, if the two don't match, issues a -Wmismatched-dealloc warning (something similar happens in C++ for mismatched calls to new and delete). GCC also uses the same mechanism to detect attempts to deallocate objects not allocated by any allocation function (or pointers past the first byte into allocated objects) by -Wfree-nonheap-object. This support is enabled for built-in functions like malloc and free. To extend it beyond those, GCC extends attribute malloc to designate a deallocation function to which pointers returned from the allocation function may be passed to deallocate the allocated objects. Another, optional argument designates the positional argument to which the pointer must be passed. This change is the first step in enabling this extended support for Glibc.
Diffstat (limited to 'stdlib/stdlib.h')
-rw-r--r--stdlib/stdlib.h16
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/stdlib/stdlib.h b/stdlib/stdlib.h
index 6360845..0481c12 100644
--- a/stdlib/stdlib.h
+++ b/stdlib/stdlib.h
@@ -550,6 +550,9 @@ extern void *calloc (size_t __nmemb, size_t __size)
extern void *realloc (void *__ptr, size_t __size)
__THROW __attribute_warn_unused_result__ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((2));
+/* Free a block allocated by `malloc', `realloc' or `calloc'. */
+extern void free (void *__ptr) __THROW;
+
#ifdef __USE_MISC
/* Re-allocate the previously allocated block in PTR, making the new
block large enough for NMEMB elements of SIZE bytes each. */
@@ -558,11 +561,13 @@ extern void *realloc (void *__ptr, size_t __size)
between objects pointed by the old and new pointers. */
extern void *reallocarray (void *__ptr, size_t __nmemb, size_t __size)
__THROW __attribute_warn_unused_result__
- __attribute_alloc_size__ ((2, 3));
-#endif
+ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((2, 3))
+ __attr_dealloc_free;
-/* Free a block allocated by `malloc', `realloc' or `calloc'. */
-extern void free (void *__ptr) __THROW;
+/* Add reallocarray as its own deallocator. */
+extern void *reallocarray (void *__ptr, size_t __nmemb, size_t __size)
+ __THROW __attr_dealloc (reallocarray, 1);
+#endif
#ifdef __USE_MISC
# include <alloca.h>
@@ -788,7 +793,8 @@ extern int system (const char *__command) __wur;
/* Return a malloc'd string containing the canonical absolute name of the
existing named file. */
extern char *canonicalize_file_name (const char *__name)
- __THROW __nonnull ((1)) __wur;
+ __THROW __nonnull ((1)) __attribute_malloc__
+ __attr_dealloc_free __wur;
#endif
#if defined __USE_MISC || defined __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED