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      1 /* alloca.c -- allocate automatically reclaimed memory
      2    (Mostly) portable public-domain implementation -- D A Gwyn
      3 
      4    This implementation of the PWB library alloca function,
      5    which is used to allocate space off the run-time stack so
      6    that it is automatically reclaimed upon procedure exit,
      7    was inspired by discussions with J. Q. Johnson of Cornell.
      8    J.Otto Tennant <jot (at) cray.com> contributed the Cray support.
      9 
     10    There are some preprocessor constants that can
     11    be defined when compiling for your specific system, for
     12    improved efficiency; however, the defaults should be okay.
     13 
     14    The general concept of this implementation is to keep
     15    track of all alloca-allocated blocks, and reclaim any
     16    that are found to be deeper in the stack than the current
     17    invocation.  This heuristic does not reclaim storage as
     18    soon as it becomes invalid, but it will do so eventually.
     19 
     20    As a special case, alloca(0) reclaims storage without
     21    allocating any.  It is a good idea to use alloca(0) in
     22    your main control loop, etc. to force garbage collection.  */
     23 
     24 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
     25 #if defined (emacs) || defined (CONFIG_BROKETS)
     26 #include <config.h>
     27 #else
     28 #include "config.h"
     29 #endif
     30 #endif
     31 
     32 /* If compiling with GCC 2, this file's not needed.  */
     33 #if !defined (__GNUC__) || __GNUC__ < 2
     34 
     35 /* If someone has defined alloca as a macro,
     36    there must be some other way alloca is supposed to work.  */
     37 #ifndef alloca
     38 
     39 #ifdef emacs
     40 #ifdef static
     41 /* actually, only want this if static is defined as ""
     42    -- this is for usg, in which emacs must undefine static
     43    in order to make unexec workable
     44    */
     45 #ifndef STACK_DIRECTION
     46 you
     47 lose
     48 -- must know STACK_DIRECTION at compile-time
     49 #endif /* STACK_DIRECTION undefined */
     50 #endif /* static */
     51 #endif /* emacs */
     52 
     53 /* If your stack is a linked list of frames, you have to
     54    provide an "address metric" ADDRESS_FUNCTION macro.  */
     55 
     56 #if defined (CRAY) && defined (CRAY_STACKSEG_END)
     57 long i00afunc ();
     58 #define ADDRESS_FUNCTION(arg) (char *) i00afunc (&(arg))
     59 #else
     60 #define ADDRESS_FUNCTION(arg) &(arg)
     61 #endif
     62 
     63 #if __STDC__
     64 typedef void *pointer;
     65 #else
     66 typedef char *pointer;
     67 #endif
     68 
     69 #define	NULL	0
     70 
     71 /* Different portions of Emacs need to call different versions of
     72    malloc.  The Emacs executable needs alloca to call xmalloc, because
     73    ordinary malloc isn't protected from input signals.  On the other
     74    hand, the utilities in lib-src need alloca to call malloc; some of
     75    them are very simple, and don't have an xmalloc routine.
     76 
     77    Non-Emacs programs expect this to call use xmalloc.
     78 
     79    Callers below should use malloc.  */
     80 
     81 #ifndef emacs
     82 #define malloc xmalloc
     83 #endif
     84 extern pointer malloc ();
     85 
     86 /* Define STACK_DIRECTION if you know the direction of stack
     87    growth for your system; otherwise it will be automatically
     88    deduced at run-time.
     89 
     90    STACK_DIRECTION > 0 => grows toward higher addresses
     91    STACK_DIRECTION < 0 => grows toward lower addresses
     92    STACK_DIRECTION = 0 => direction of growth unknown  */
     93 
     94 #ifndef STACK_DIRECTION
     95 #define	STACK_DIRECTION	0	/* Direction unknown.  */
     96 #endif
     97 
     98 #if STACK_DIRECTION != 0
     99 
    100 #define	STACK_DIR	STACK_DIRECTION	/* Known at compile-time.  */
    101 
    102 #else /* STACK_DIRECTION == 0; need run-time code.  */
    103 
    104 static int stack_dir;		/* 1 or -1 once known.  */
    105 #define	STACK_DIR	stack_dir
    106 
    107 static void
    108 find_stack_direction ()
    109 {
    110   static char *addr = NULL;	/* Address of first `dummy', once known.  */
    111   auto char dummy;		/* To get stack address.  */
    112 
    113   if (addr == NULL)
    114     {				/* Initial entry.  */
    115       addr = ADDRESS_FUNCTION (dummy);
    116 
    117       find_stack_direction ();	/* Recurse once.  */
    118     }
    119   else
    120     {
    121       /* Second entry.  */
    122       if (ADDRESS_FUNCTION (dummy) > addr)
    123 	stack_dir = 1;		/* Stack grew upward.  */
    124       else
    125 	stack_dir = -1;		/* Stack grew downward.  */
    126     }
    127 }
    128 
    129 #endif /* STACK_DIRECTION == 0 */
    130 
    131 /* An "alloca header" is used to:
    132    (a) chain together all alloca'ed blocks;
    133    (b) keep track of stack depth.
    134 
    135    It is very important that sizeof(header) agree with malloc
    136    alignment chunk size.  The following default should work okay.  */
    137 
    138 #ifndef	ALIGN_SIZE
    139 #define	ALIGN_SIZE	sizeof(double)
    140 #endif
    141 
    142 typedef union hdr
    143 {
    144   char align[ALIGN_SIZE];	/* To force sizeof(header).  */
    145   struct
    146     {
    147       union hdr *next;		/* For chaining headers.  */
    148       char *deep;		/* For stack depth measure.  */
    149     } h;
    150 } header;
    151 
    152 static header *last_alloca_header = NULL;	/* -> last alloca header.  */
    153 
    154 /* Return a pointer to at least SIZE bytes of storage,
    155    which will be automatically reclaimed upon exit from
    156    the procedure that called alloca.  Originally, this space
    157    was supposed to be taken from the current stack frame of the
    158    caller, but that method cannot be made to work for some
    159    implementations of C, for example under Gould's UTX/32.  */
    160 
    161 pointer
    162 alloca (size)
    163      unsigned size;
    164 {
    165   auto char probe;		/* Probes stack depth: */
    166   register char *depth = ADDRESS_FUNCTION (probe);
    167 
    168 #if STACK_DIRECTION == 0
    169   if (STACK_DIR == 0)		/* Unknown growth direction.  */
    170     find_stack_direction ();
    171 #endif
    172 
    173   /* Reclaim garbage, defined as all alloca'd storage that
    174      was allocated from deeper in the stack than currently. */
    175 
    176   {
    177     register header *hp;	/* Traverses linked list.  */
    178 
    179     for (hp = last_alloca_header; hp != NULL;)
    180       if ((STACK_DIR > 0 && hp->h.deep > depth)
    181 	  || (STACK_DIR < 0 && hp->h.deep < depth))
    182 	{
    183 	  register header *np = hp->h.next;
    184 
    185 	  free ((pointer) hp);	/* Collect garbage.  */
    186 
    187 	  hp = np;		/* -> next header.  */
    188 	}
    189       else
    190 	break;			/* Rest are not deeper.  */
    191 
    192     last_alloca_header = hp;	/* -> last valid storage.  */
    193   }
    194 
    195   if (size == 0)
    196     return NULL;		/* No allocation required.  */
    197 
    198   /* Allocate combined header + user data storage.  */
    199 
    200   {
    201     register pointer new = malloc (sizeof (header) + size);
    202     /* Address of header.  */
    203 
    204     ((header *) new)->h.next = last_alloca_header;
    205     ((header *) new)->h.deep = depth;
    206 
    207     last_alloca_header = (header *) new;
    208 
    209     /* User storage begins just after header.  */
    210 
    211     return (pointer) ((char *) new + sizeof (header));
    212   }
    213 }
    214 
    215 #if defined (CRAY) && defined (CRAY_STACKSEG_END)
    216 
    217 #ifdef DEBUG_I00AFUNC
    218 #include <stdio.h>
    219 #endif
    220 
    221 #ifndef CRAY_STACK
    222 #define CRAY_STACK
    223 #ifndef CRAY2
    224 /* Stack structures for CRAY-1, CRAY X-MP, and CRAY Y-MP */
    225 struct stack_control_header
    226   {
    227     long shgrow:32;		/* Number of times stack has grown.  */
    228     long shaseg:32;		/* Size of increments to stack.  */
    229     long shhwm:32;		/* High water mark of stack.  */
    230     long shsize:32;		/* Current size of stack (all segments).  */
    231   };
    232 
    233 /* The stack segment linkage control information occurs at
    234    the high-address end of a stack segment.  (The stack
    235    grows from low addresses to high addresses.)  The initial
    236    part of the stack segment linkage control information is
    237    0200 (octal) words.  This provides for register storage
    238    for the routine which overflows the stack.  */
    239 
    240 struct stack_segment_linkage
    241   {
    242     long ss[0200];		/* 0200 overflow words.  */
    243     long sssize:32;		/* Number of words in this segment.  */
    244     long ssbase:32;		/* Offset to stack base.  */
    245     long:32;
    246     long sspseg:32;		/* Offset to linkage control of previous
    247 				   segment of stack.  */
    248     long:32;
    249     long sstcpt:32;		/* Pointer to task common address block.  */
    250     long sscsnm;		/* Private control structure number for
    251 				   microtasking.  */
    252     long ssusr1;		/* Reserved for user.  */
    253     long ssusr2;		/* Reserved for user.  */
    254     long sstpid;		/* Process ID for pid based multi-tasking.  */
    255     long ssgvup;		/* Pointer to multitasking thread giveup.  */
    256     long sscray[7];		/* Reserved for Cray Research.  */
    257     long ssa0;
    258     long ssa1;
    259     long ssa2;
    260     long ssa3;
    261     long ssa4;
    262     long ssa5;
    263     long ssa6;
    264     long ssa7;
    265     long sss0;
    266     long sss1;
    267     long sss2;
    268     long sss3;
    269     long sss4;
    270     long sss5;
    271     long sss6;
    272     long sss7;
    273   };
    274 
    275 #else /* CRAY2 */
    276 /* The following structure defines the vector of words
    277    returned by the STKSTAT library routine.  */
    278 struct stk_stat
    279   {
    280     long now;			/* Current total stack size.  */
    281     long maxc;			/* Amount of contiguous space which would
    282 				   be required to satisfy the maximum
    283 				   stack demand to date.  */
    284     long high_water;		/* Stack high-water mark.  */
    285     long overflows;		/* Number of stack overflow ($STKOFEN) calls.  */
    286     long hits;			/* Number of internal buffer hits.  */
    287     long extends;		/* Number of block extensions.  */
    288     long stko_mallocs;		/* Block allocations by $STKOFEN.  */
    289     long underflows;		/* Number of stack underflow calls ($STKRETN).  */
    290     long stko_free;		/* Number of deallocations by $STKRETN.  */
    291     long stkm_free;		/* Number of deallocations by $STKMRET.  */
    292     long segments;		/* Current number of stack segments.  */
    293     long maxs;			/* Maximum number of stack segments so far.  */
    294     long pad_size;		/* Stack pad size.  */
    295     long current_address;	/* Current stack segment address.  */
    296     long current_size;		/* Current stack segment size.  This
    297 				   number is actually corrupted by STKSTAT to
    298 				   include the fifteen word trailer area.  */
    299     long initial_address;	/* Address of initial segment.  */
    300     long initial_size;		/* Size of initial segment.  */
    301   };
    302 
    303 /* The following structure describes the data structure which trails
    304    any stack segment.  I think that the description in 'asdef' is
    305    out of date.  I only describe the parts that I am sure about.  */
    306 
    307 struct stk_trailer
    308   {
    309     long this_address;		/* Address of this block.  */
    310     long this_size;		/* Size of this block (does not include
    311 				   this trailer).  */
    312     long unknown2;
    313     long unknown3;
    314     long link;			/* Address of trailer block of previous
    315 				   segment.  */
    316     long unknown5;
    317     long unknown6;
    318     long unknown7;
    319     long unknown8;
    320     long unknown9;
    321     long unknown10;
    322     long unknown11;
    323     long unknown12;
    324     long unknown13;
    325     long unknown14;
    326   };
    327 
    328 #endif /* CRAY2 */
    329 #endif /* not CRAY_STACK */
    330 
    331 #ifdef CRAY2
    332 /* Determine a "stack measure" for an arbitrary ADDRESS.
    333    I doubt that "lint" will like this much. */
    334 
    335 static long
    336 i00afunc (long *address)
    337 {
    338   struct stk_stat status;
    339   struct stk_trailer *trailer;
    340   long *block, size;
    341   long result = 0;
    342 
    343   /* We want to iterate through all of the segments.  The first
    344      step is to get the stack status structure.  We could do this
    345      more quickly and more directly, perhaps, by referencing the
    346      $LM00 common block, but I know that this works.  */
    347 
    348   STKSTAT (&status);
    349 
    350   /* Set up the iteration.  */
    351 
    352   trailer = (struct stk_trailer *) (status.current_address
    353 				    + status.current_size
    354 				    - 15);
    355 
    356   /* There must be at least one stack segment.  Therefore it is
    357      a fatal error if "trailer" is null.  */
    358 
    359   if (trailer == 0)
    360     abort ();
    361 
    362   /* Discard segments that do not contain our argument address.  */
    363 
    364   while (trailer != 0)
    365     {
    366       block = (long *) trailer->this_address;
    367       size = trailer->this_size;
    368       if (block == 0 || size == 0)
    369 	abort ();
    370       trailer = (struct stk_trailer *) trailer->link;
    371       if ((block <= address) && (address < (block + size)))
    372 	break;
    373     }
    374 
    375   /* Set the result to the offset in this segment and add the sizes
    376      of all predecessor segments.  */
    377 
    378   result = address - block;
    379 
    380   if (trailer == 0)
    381     {
    382       return result;
    383     }
    384 
    385   do
    386     {
    387       if (trailer->this_size <= 0)
    388 	abort ();
    389       result += trailer->this_size;
    390       trailer = (struct stk_trailer *) trailer->link;
    391     }
    392   while (trailer != 0);
    393 
    394   /* We are done.  Note that if you present a bogus address (one
    395      not in any segment), you will get a different number back, formed
    396      from subtracting the address of the first block.  This is probably
    397      not what you want.  */
    398 
    399   return (result);
    400 }
    401 
    402 #else /* not CRAY2 */
    403 /* Stack address function for a CRAY-1, CRAY X-MP, or CRAY Y-MP.
    404    Determine the number of the cell within the stack,
    405    given the address of the cell.  The purpose of this
    406    routine is to linearize, in some sense, stack addresses
    407    for alloca.  */
    408 
    409 static long
    410 i00afunc (long address)
    411 {
    412   long stkl = 0;
    413 
    414   long size, pseg, this_segment, stack;
    415   long result = 0;
    416 
    417   struct stack_segment_linkage *ssptr;
    418 
    419   /* Register B67 contains the address of the end of the
    420      current stack segment.  If you (as a subprogram) store
    421      your registers on the stack and find that you are past
    422      the contents of B67, you have overflowed the segment.
    423 
    424      B67 also points to the stack segment linkage control
    425      area, which is what we are really interested in.  */
    426 
    427   stkl = CRAY_STACKSEG_END ();
    428   ssptr = (struct stack_segment_linkage *) stkl;
    429 
    430   /* If one subtracts 'size' from the end of the segment,
    431      one has the address of the first word of the segment.
    432 
    433      If this is not the first segment, 'pseg' will be
    434      nonzero.  */
    435 
    436   pseg = ssptr->sspseg;
    437   size = ssptr->sssize;
    438 
    439   this_segment = stkl - size;
    440 
    441   /* It is possible that calling this routine itself caused
    442      a stack overflow.  Discard stack segments which do not
    443      contain the target address.  */
    444 
    445   while (!(this_segment <= address && address <= stkl))
    446     {
    447 #ifdef DEBUG_I00AFUNC
    448       fprintf (stderr, "%011o %011o %011o\n", this_segment, address, stkl);
    449 #endif
    450       if (pseg == 0)
    451 	break;
    452       stkl = stkl - pseg;
    453       ssptr = (struct stack_segment_linkage *) stkl;
    454       size = ssptr->sssize;
    455       pseg = ssptr->sspseg;
    456       this_segment = stkl - size;
    457     }
    458 
    459   result = address - this_segment;
    460 
    461   /* If you subtract pseg from the current end of the stack,
    462      you get the address of the previous stack segment's end.
    463      This seems a little convoluted to me, but I'll bet you save
    464      a cycle somewhere.  */
    465 
    466   while (pseg != 0)
    467     {
    468 #ifdef DEBUG_I00AFUNC
    469       fprintf (stderr, "%011o %011o\n", pseg, size);
    470 #endif
    471       stkl = stkl - pseg;
    472       ssptr = (struct stack_segment_linkage *) stkl;
    473       size = ssptr->sssize;
    474       pseg = ssptr->sspseg;
    475       result += size;
    476     }
    477   return (result);
    478 }
    479 
    480 #endif /* not CRAY2 */
    481 #endif /* CRAY */
    482 
    483 #endif /* no alloca */
    484 #endif /* not GCC version 2 */
    485