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author | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-01-09 06:36:28 +0000 |
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committer | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-01-09 06:36:28 +0000 |
commit | 990fc2900cc85359139fbca95c216c6c302873af (patch) | |
tree | 95b1629eb692f9ea1ee495c472e77e7e68422189 /lib/libc | |
parent | b9d5a50095d3b8b3b530da7e7b24d476068d01b5 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-990fc2900cc85359139fbca95c216c6c302873af.zip FreeBSD-src-990fc2900cc85359139fbca95c216c6c302873af.tar.gz |
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@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/Makefile.inc | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/Symbol.map | 1 | ||||
-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.c | 14 |
4 files changed, 55 insertions, 9 deletions
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; |