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authored <ed@FreeBSD.org>2012-01-09 06:36:28 +0000
committered <ed@FreeBSD.org>2012-01-09 06:36:28 +0000
commit990fc2900cc85359139fbca95c216c6c302873af (patch)
tree95b1629eb692f9ea1ee495c472e77e7e68422189
parentb9d5a50095d3b8b3b530da7e7b24d476068d01b5 (diff)
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Add aligned_alloc(3).
The C11 folks reinvented the wheel by introducing an aligned version of malloc(3) called aligned_alloc(3), instead of posix_memalign(3). Instead of returning the allocation by reference, it returns the address, just like malloc(3). Reviewed by: jasone@
-rw-r--r--include/stdlib.h1
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/Makefile.inc7
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/Symbol.map1
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/aligned_alloc.3 (renamed from lib/libc/stdlib/posix_memalign.3)42
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c14
5 files changed, 56 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/stdlib.h b/include/stdlib.h
index c66f924..2c62f09 100644
--- a/include/stdlib.h
+++ b/include/stdlib.h
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ _Noreturn void _Exit(int);
* If we're in a mode greater than C99, expose C11 functions.
*/
#if __ISO_C_VISIBLE >= 2011
+void * aligned_alloc(size_t, size_t);
int at_quick_exit(void (*)(void));
_Noreturn void
quick_exit(int);
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/Makefile.inc b/lib/libc/stdlib/Makefile.inc
index 7db0f60..9d530bc 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/Makefile.inc
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/Makefile.inc
@@ -18,17 +18,18 @@ SYM_MAPS+= ${.CURDIR}/stdlib/Symbol.map
# machine-dependent stdlib sources
.sinclude "${.CURDIR}/${LIBC_ARCH}/stdlib/Makefile.inc"
-MAN+= a64l.3 abort.3 abs.3 alloca.3 atexit.3 atof.3 atoi.3 atol.3 \
- at_quick_exit.3 bsearch.3 \
+MAN+= a64l.3 abort.3 abs.3 aligned_alloc.3 alloca.3 atexit.3 atof.3 \
+ atoi.3 atol.3 at_quick_exit.3 bsearch.3 \
div.3 exit.3 getenv.3 getopt.3 getopt_long.3 getsubopt.3 \
hcreate.3 imaxabs.3 imaxdiv.3 insque.3 labs.3 ldiv.3 llabs.3 lldiv.3 \
- lsearch.3 malloc.3 memory.3 posix_memalign.3 ptsname.3 qsort.3 \
+ lsearch.3 malloc.3 memory.3 ptsname.3 qsort.3 \
quick_exit.3 \
radixsort.3 rand.3 random.3 \
realpath.3 strfmon.3 strtod.3 strtol.3 strtonum.3 strtoul.3 system.3 \
tsearch.3
MLINKS+=a64l.3 l64a.3 a64l.3 l64a_r.3
+MLINKS+=aligned_alloc.3 posix_memalign.3
MLINKS+=atol.3 atoll.3
MLINKS+=exit.3 _Exit.3
MLINKS+=getenv.3 putenv.3 getenv.3 setenv.3 getenv.3 unsetenv.3
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/Symbol.map b/lib/libc/stdlib/Symbol.map
index ea3604e..89dea44 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/Symbol.map
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/Symbol.map
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ FBSD_1.0 {
};
FBSD_1.3 {
+ aligned_alloc;
at_quick_exit;
atof_l;
atoi_l;
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/posix_memalign.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/aligned_alloc.3
index b092ced..ff78b4b 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/posix_memalign.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/aligned_alloc.3
@@ -27,26 +27,35 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 11, 2006
-.Dt POSIX_MEMALIGN 3
+.Dd January 7, 2011
+.Dt ALIGNED_ALLOC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
+.Nm aligned_alloc ,
.Nm posix_memalign
.Nd aligned memory allocation
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In stdlib.h
+.Ft void *
+.Fn aligned_alloc "size_t alignment" "size_t size"
.Ft int
.Fn posix_memalign "void **ptr" "size_t alignment" "size_t size"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
+.Fn aligned_alloc
+and
.Fn posix_memalign
-function allocates
+functions allocate
.Fa size
bytes of memory such that the allocation's base address is an even multiple of
-.Fa alignment ,
-and returns the allocation in the value pointed to by
+.Fa alignment .
+The
+.Fn aligned_alloc
+function returns the allocation, while the
+.Fn posix_memalign
+function stores the allocation in the value pointed to by
.Fa ptr .
.Pp
The requested
@@ -55,6 +64,8 @@ must be a power of 2 at least as large as
.Fn sizeof "void *" .
.Pp
Memory that is allocated via
+.Fn aligned_alloc
+and
.Fn posix_memalign
can be used as an argument in subsequent calls to
.Xr realloc 3 ,
@@ -63,12 +74,21 @@ and
.Xr free 3 .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
+.Fn aligned_alloc
+function returns a pointer to the allocation if successful; otherwise a
+NULL pointer is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set to an error value.
+.Pp
+The
.Fn posix_memalign
function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise it returns an error value.
.Sh ERRORS
The
+.Fn aligned_alloc
+and
.Fn posix_memalign
-function will fail if:
+functions will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The
@@ -86,6 +106,11 @@ Memory allocation error.
.Xr valloc 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
+.Fn aligned_alloc
+function conforms to
+.St -isoC-2011 .
+.Pp
+The
.Fn posix_memalign
function conforms to
.St -p1003.1-2001 .
@@ -94,3 +119,8 @@ The
.Fn posix_memalign
function first appeared in
.Fx 7.0 .
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn aligned_alloc
+function first appeared in
+.Fx 10.0 .
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
index 7ef59e4..2d932cb 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
@@ -6043,6 +6043,20 @@ RETURN:
}
void *
+aligned_alloc(size_t alignment, size_t size)
+{
+ void *memptr;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = posix_memalign(&memptr, alignment, size);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ errno = ret;
+ return (NULL);
+ }
+ return (memptr);
+}
+
+void *
calloc(size_t num, size_t size)
{
void *ret;
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