/* Provide a useful malloc sanity checker and an efficient buffered memory allocator that reduces calls to malloc. Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc. written by Douglas C. Schmidt (schmidt@ics.uci.edu) This file is part of GNU GPERF. GNU GPERF is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. GNU GPERF is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU GPERF; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ #include /* Grabs SIZE bytes of dynamic memory or dies trying! */ char * xmalloc (size) int size; { char *malloc (); char *temp = malloc (size); if (temp == 0) { fprintf (stderr, "out of virtual memory\n"); exit (1); } return temp; } /* Determine default alignment. If your C compiler does not like this then try something like #define DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT 8. */ struct fooalign {char x; double d;}; #define ALIGNMENT ((char *)&((struct fooalign *) 0)->d - (char *)0) /* Provide an abstraction that cuts down on the number of calls to MALLOC by buffering the memory pool from which items are allocated. */ char * buffered_malloc (size) int size; { char *temp; static char *buf_start = 0; /* Large array used to reduce calls to NEW. */ static char *buf_end = 0; /* Indicates end of BUF_START. */ static int buf_size = 4 * BUFSIZ; /* Size of buffer pointed to by BUF_START. */ /* Align this on correct boundaries, just to be safe... */ size = ((size + ALIGNMENT - 1) / ALIGNMENT) * ALIGNMENT; /* If we are about to overflow our buffer we'll just grab another chunk of memory. Since we never free the original memory it doesn't matter that no one points to the beginning of that chunk. Furthermore, as a heuristic, we double the size of the new buffer! */ if (buf_start + size >= buf_end) { buf_size = buf_size * 2 > size ? buf_size * 2 : size; buf_start = xmalloc (buf_size); buf_end = buf_start + buf_size; } temp = buf_start; buf_start += size; return temp; }