/*
* Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
* Copyright (c) 1991-1995 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
* Copyright 1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics. All rights reserved.
* Copyright 1999 by Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved.
*
* THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
* OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
*
* Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
* for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
* Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
* provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
* modified is included with the above copyright notice.
*/
/*
* Note that this defines a large number of tuning hooks, which can
* safely be ignored in nearly all cases. For normal use it suffices
* to call only GC_MALLOC and perhaps GC_REALLOC.
* For better performance, also look at GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC, and
* GC_enable_incremental. If you need an action to be performed
* immediately before an object is collected, look at GC_register_finalizer.
* If you are using Solaris threads, look at the end of this file.
* Everything else is best ignored unless you encounter performance
* problems.
*/
#ifndef _GC_H
# define _GC_H
# define __GC
# include <stddef.h>
# ifdef _WIN32_WCE
/* Yet more kluges for WinCE */
# include <stdlib.h> /* size_t is defined here */
typedef long ptrdiff_t; /* ptrdiff_t is not defined */
# endif
#if defined(__MINGW32__) && defined(_DLL) && !defined(GC_NOT_DLL)
# ifdef GC_BUILD
# define GC_API __declspec(dllexport)
# else
# define GC_API __declspec(dllimport)
# endif
#endif
#if (defined(__DMC__) || defined(_MSC_VER)) && (defined(_DLL) && !defined(GC_NOT_DLL) || defined(GC_DLL))
# ifdef GC_BUILD
# define GC_API extern __declspec(dllexport)
# else
# define GC_API __declspec(dllimport)
# endif
#endif
#ifndef GC_API
#define GC_API extern
#endif
# if defined(__STDC__) || defined(__cplusplus)
# define GC_PROTO(args) args
typedef void * GC_PTR;
# define GC_CONST const
# else
# define GC_PROTO(args) ()
typedef char * GC_PTR;
# define GC_CONST
# endif
# ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
# endif
typedef unsigned long GC_word;
typedef long GC_signed_word;
/* Public procedures */
/* Initialize the collector. This is only required when using thread-local
* allocation, since unlike the regular allocation routines, GC_local_malloc
* is not self-initializing. If you use GC_local_malloc you should arrange
* to call this somehow (e.g. from a constructor) before doing any allocation.
*/
GC_API void GC_init GC_PROTO((void));
/* Disable garbage collection. Even GC_gcollect calls will be */
/* ineffective. */
GC_API void GC_disable(void);
/* Try to re-enable garbage collection. GC_disable() and GC_enable() */
/* calls nest. Garbage collection is enabled if the number of calls to */
/* both functions is equal. */
GC_API void GC_enable(void);
/*
* general purpose allocation routines, with roughly malloc calling conv.
* The atomic versions promise that no relevant pointers are contained
* in the object. The nonatomic versions guarantee that the new object
* is cleared. GC_malloc_stubborn promises that no changes to the object
* will occur after GC_end_stubborn_change has been called on the
* result of GC_malloc_stubborn. GC_malloc_uncollectable allocates an object
* that is scanned for pointers to collectable objects, but is not itself
* collectable. The object is scanned even if it does not appear to
* be reachable. GC_malloc_uncollectable and GC_free called on the resulting
* object implicitly update GC_non_gc_bytes appropriately.
*/
GC_API GC_PTR GC_malloc GC_PROTO((size_t size_in_bytes));
GC_API GC_PTR GC_malloc_atomic GC_PROTO((size_t size_in_bytes));
/* Explicitly deallocate an object. Dangerous if used incorrectly. */
/* Requires a pointer to the base of an object. */
/* If the argument is stubborn, it should not be changeable when freed. */
/* An object should not be enable for finalization when it is */
/* explicitly deallocated. */
/* GC_free(0) is a no-op, as required by ANSI C for free. */
GC_API void GC_free GC_PROTO((GC_PTR object_addr));
/* For compatibility with C library. This is occasionally faster than */
/* a malloc followed by a bcopy. But if you rely on that, either here */
/* or with the standard C library, your code is broken. In my */
/* opinion, it shouldn't have been invented, but now we're stuck. -HB */
/* The resulting object has the same kind as the original. */
/* If the argument is stubborn, the result will have changes enabled. */
/* It is an error to have changes enabled for the original object. */
/* Follows ANSI comventions for NULL old_object. */
GC_API GC_PTR GC_realloc GC_PROTO((GC_PTR old_object, size_t new_size_in_bytes));
/* Explicitly trigger a full, world-stop collection. */
GC_API void GC_gcollect GC_PROTO((void));
/* We try to make sure that we allocate at least N/GC_free_space_divisor bytes between collections */
GC_API void GC_set_free_space_divisor(GC_word);
GC_API GC_word GC_get_free_space_divisor(void);
/* Return the number of bytes in the heap. Excludes collector private */
/* data structures. Includes empty blocks and fragmentation loss. */
/* Includes some pages that were allocated but never written. */
GC_API size_t GC_get_heap_size GC_PROTO((void));
/* Return a lower bound on the number of free bytes in the heap. */
GC_API size_t GC_get_free_bytes GC_PROTO((void));
/* Return the number of bytes allocated since the last collection. */
GC_API size_t GC_get_bytes_since_gc GC_PROTO((void));
/* Return the total number of bytes allocated in this process. */
/* Never decreases. */
GC_API size_t GC_get_total_bytes GC_PROTO((void));
#if defined(__sgi) && !defined(__GNUC__) && _COMPILER_VERSION >= 720
# define GC_ADD_CALLER
# define GC_RETURN_ADDR (GC_word)__return_address
#endif
#ifdef GC_ADD_CALLER
# define GC_EXTRAS GC_RETURN_ADDR, __FILE__, __LINE__
# define GC_EXTRA_PARAMS GC_word ra, GC_CONST char * s, int i
#else
# define GC_EXTRAS __FILE__, __LINE__
# define GC_EXTRA_PARAMS GC_CONST char * s, int i
#endif
/* Debugging (annotated) allocation. GC_gcollect will check */
/* objects allocated in this way for overwrites, etc. */
GC_API GC_PTR GC_debug_malloc GC_PROTO((size_t size_in_bytes, GC_EXTRA_PARAMS));
GC_API GC_PTR GC_debug_malloc_atomic GC_PROTO((size_t size_in_bytes, GC_EXTRA_PARAMS));
GC_API void GC_debug_free GC_PROTO((GC_PTR object_addr));
GC_API GC_PTR GC_debug_realloc GC_PROTO((GC_PTR old_object, size_t new_size_in_bytes, GC_EXTRA_PARAMS));
/* Routines that allocate objects with debug information (like the */
/* above), but just fill in dummy file and line number information. */
/* Thus they can serve as drop-in malloc/realloc replacements. This */
/* can be useful for two reasons: */
/* 1) It allows the collector to be built with DBG_HDRS_ALL defined */
/* even if some allocation calls come from 3rd party libraries */
/* that can't be recompiled. */
/* 2) On some platforms, the file and line information is redundant, */
/* since it can be reconstructed from a stack trace. On such */
/* platforms it may be more convenient not to recompile, e.g. for */
/* leak detection. This can be accomplished by instructing the */
/* linker to replace malloc/realloc with these. */
GC_API GC_PTR GC_debug_malloc_replacement GC_PROTO((size_t size_in_bytes));
GC_API GC_PTR GC_debug_realloc_replacement GC_PROTO((GC_PTR object_addr, size_t size_in_bytes));
# ifdef GC_DEBUG
# define GC_MALLOC(sz) GC_debug_malloc(sz, GC_EXTRAS)
# define GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC(sz) GC_debug_malloc_atomic(sz, GC_EXTRAS)
# define GC_REALLOC(old, sz) GC_debug_realloc(old, sz, GC_EXTRAS)
# define GC_FREE(p) GC_debug_free(p)
# else
# define GC_MALLOC(sz) GC_malloc(sz)
# define GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC(sz) GC_malloc_atomic(sz)
# define GC_REALLOC(old, sz) GC_realloc(old, sz)
# define GC_FREE(p) GC_free(p)
# endif
/* The following are included because they are often convenient, and */
/* reduce the chance for a misspecifed size argument. But calls may */
/* expand to something syntactically incorrect if t is a complicated */
/* type expression. */
# define GC_NEW(t) (t *)GC_MALLOC(sizeof (t))
# define GC_NEW_ATOMIC(t) (t *)GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC(sizeof (t))
/* GC_set_warn_proc can be used to redirect or filter warning messages. */
/* p may not be a NULL pointer. */
typedef void (*GC_warn_proc) GC_PROTO((char *msg, GC_word arg));
GC_API void GC_set_warn_proc GC_PROTO((GC_warn_proc p));
/* GC_ignore_warn_proc may be used as an argument for GC_set_warn_proc */
/* to suppress all warnings (unless statistics printing is turned on). */
GC_API void GC_ignore_warn_proc(char *, GC_word);
/* abort_func is invoked on GC fatal aborts (just before OS-dependent */
/* abort or exit(1) is called). Must be non-NULL. */
typedef void (* GC_abort_func)(const char * /* msg */);
GC_API void GC_set_abort_func(GC_abort_func fn);
#ifdef __cplusplus
} /* end of extern "C" */
#endif
#endif /* _GC_H */
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