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- /* 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 <stdio.h>
-
- /* 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;
- }
-