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- /* The PyMem_ family: low-level memory allocation interfaces.
- See objimpl.h for the PyObject_ memory family.
- */
-
- #ifndef Py_PYMEM_H
- #define Py_PYMEM_H
-
- #include "pyport.h"
-
- #ifdef __cplusplus
- extern "C" {
- #endif
-
- /* BEWARE:
-
- Each interface exports both functions and macros. Extension modules should
- use the functions, to ensure binary compatibility across Python versions.
- Because the Python implementation is free to change internal details, and
- the macros may (or may not) expose details for speed, if you do use the
- macros you must recompile your extensions with each Python release.
-
- Never mix calls to PyMem_ with calls to the platform malloc/realloc/
- calloc/free. For example, on Windows different DLLs may end up using
- different heaps, and if you use PyMem_Malloc you'll get the memory from the
- heap used by the Python DLL; it could be a disaster if you free()'ed that
- directly in your own extension. Using PyMem_Free instead ensures Python
- can return the memory to the proper heap. As another example, in
- PYMALLOC_DEBUG mode, Python wraps all calls to all PyMem_ and PyObject_
- memory functions in special debugging wrappers that add additional
- debugging info to dynamic memory blocks. The system routines have no idea
- what to do with that stuff, and the Python wrappers have no idea what to do
- with raw blocks obtained directly by the system routines then.
- */
-
- /*
- * Raw memory interface
- * ====================
- */
-
- /* Functions
-
- Functions supplying platform-independent semantics for malloc/realloc/
- free. These functions make sure that allocating 0 bytes returns a distinct
- non-NULL pointer (whenever possible -- if we're flat out of memory, NULL
- may be returned), even if the platform malloc and realloc don't.
- Returned pointers must be checked for NULL explicitly. No action is
- performed on failure (no exception is set, no warning is printed, etc).
- */
-
- PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyMem_Malloc(size_t);
- PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyMem_Realloc(void *, size_t);
- PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyMem_Free(void *);
-
- /* Starting from Python 1.6, the wrappers Py_{Malloc,Realloc,Free} are
- no longer supported. They used to call PyErr_NoMemory() on failure. */
-
- /* Macros. */
- #ifdef PYMALLOC_DEBUG
- /* Redirect all memory operations to Python's debugging allocator. */
- #define PyMem_MALLOC PyObject_MALLOC
- #define PyMem_REALLOC PyObject_REALLOC
-
- #else /* ! PYMALLOC_DEBUG */
-
- /* PyMem_MALLOC(0) means malloc(1). Some systems would return NULL
- for malloc(0), which would be treated as an error. Some platforms
- would return a pointer with no memory behind it, which would break
- pymalloc. To solve these problems, allocate an extra byte. */
- #define PyMem_MALLOC(n) malloc((n) ? (n) : 1)
- #define PyMem_REALLOC(p, n) realloc((p), (n) ? (n) : 1)
-
- #endif /* PYMALLOC_DEBUG */
-
- /* In order to avoid breaking old code mixing PyObject_{New, NEW} with
- PyMem_{Del, DEL} and PyMem_{Free, FREE}, the PyMem "release memory"
- functions have to be redirected to the object deallocator. */
- #define PyMem_FREE PyObject_FREE
-
- /*
- * Type-oriented memory interface
- * ==============================
- *
- * These are carried along for historical reasons. There's rarely a good
- * reason to use them anymore (you can just as easily do the multiply and
- * cast yourself).
- */
-
- #define PyMem_New(type, n) \
- ( (type *) PyMem_Malloc((n) * sizeof(type)) )
- #define PyMem_NEW(type, n) \
- ( (type *) PyMem_MALLOC((n) * sizeof(type)) )
-
- #define PyMem_Resize(p, type, n) \
- ( (p) = (type *) PyMem_Realloc((p), (n) * sizeof(type)) )
- #define PyMem_RESIZE(p, type, n) \
- ( (p) = (type *) PyMem_REALLOC((p), (n) * sizeof(type)) )
-
- /* In order to avoid breaking old code mixing PyObject_{New, NEW} with
- PyMem_{Del, DEL} and PyMem_{Free, FREE}, the PyMem "release memory"
- functions have to be redirected to the object deallocator. */
- #define PyMem_Del PyObject_Free
- #define PyMem_DEL PyObject_FREE
-
- #ifdef __cplusplus
- }
- #endif
-
- #endif /* !Py_PYMEM_H */
-