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2025-09-13T01:44:53
pagealign_alloc: Improve documentation. Suggested by Paul Eggert. * lib/pagealign_alloc.h: Document that this module is not multithread- safe.
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/* Memory allocation aligned to system page boundaries.
Copyright (C) 2005, 2008, 2010-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program 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 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program 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 this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#ifndef _PAGEALIGN_ALLOC_H
#define _PAGEALIGN_ALLOC_H
/* This file uses _GL_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE, _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC,
_GL_ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC, _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL,
_GL_ATTRIBUTE_RETURNS_NONNULL. */
#if !_GL_CONFIG_H_INCLUDED
# error "Please include config.h first."
#endif
#include <stddef.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/* Note: The functions declared in this file are NOT multithread-safe. */
/* Free a memory block.
PTR must be a non-NULL pointer returned by pagealign_alloc or
pagealign_xalloc. */
extern void pagealign_free (void *ptr)
_GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ((1));
/* Allocate a block of memory of SIZE bytes, aligned on a system page
boundary.
If SIZE is not a multiple of the system page size, it will be rounded up
to the next multiple.
Return a pointer to the start of the memory block. Upon allocation failure,
return NULL and set errno. */
extern void *pagealign_alloc (size_t size)
_GL_ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC (pagealign_free, 1)
_GL_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE ((1));
/* Like pagealign_alloc, except it exits the program if the allocation
fails. */
extern void *pagealign_xalloc (size_t size)
_GL_ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC (pagealign_free, 1)
_GL_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE ((1)) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_RETURNS_NONNULL;
/* Selects the implementation of pagealign_alloc.
If you set pagealign_impl, it must be before the first invocation of
pagealign_alloc or pagealign_xalloc. */
typedef enum
{
PA_IMPL_DEFAULT = 0, /* platform-dependent default */
PA_IMPL_MALLOC = 1, /* malloc */
PA_IMPL_MMAP = 2, /* mmap (if available) */
PA_IMPL_POSIX_MEMALIGN = 3, /* posix_memalign (if available) */
PA_IMPL_ALIGNED_MALLOC = 4, /* _aligned_malloc (if available) */
PA_IMPL_VIRTUAL_ALLOC = 5 /* VirtualAlloc (if available) */
} pagealign_impl_t;
extern pagealign_impl_t pagealign_impl;
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* _PAGEALIGN_ALLOC_H */