Implement the *allocx() API.

Implement the *allocx() API, which is a successor to the *allocm() API.
The *allocx() functions are slightly simpler to use because they have
fewer parameters, they directly return the results of primary interest,
and mallocx()/rallocx() avoid the strict aliasing pitfall that
allocm()/rallocx() share with posix_memalign().  The following code
violates strict aliasing rules:

    foo_t *foo;
    allocm((void **)&foo, NULL, 42, 0);

whereas the following is safe:

    foo_t *foo;
    void *p;
    allocm(&p, NULL, 42, 0);
    foo = (foo_t *)p;

mallocx() does not have this problem:

    foo_t *foo = (foo_t *)mallocx(42, 0);
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Jason Evans
2013-12-12 22:35:52 -08:00
parent 0ac396a06a
commit d82a5e6a34
19 changed files with 954 additions and 365 deletions

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@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ AC_PROG_RANLIB
AC_PATH_PROG([LD], [ld], [false], [$PATH])
AC_PATH_PROG([AUTOCONF], [autoconf], [false], [$PATH])
public_syms="malloc_conf malloc_message malloc calloc posix_memalign aligned_alloc realloc free malloc_usable_size malloc_stats_print mallctl mallctlnametomib mallctlbymib"
public_syms="malloc_conf malloc_message malloc calloc posix_memalign aligned_alloc realloc free mallocx rallocx xallocx sallocx dallocx nallocx mallctl mallctlnametomib mallctlbymib malloc_stats_print malloc_usable_size"
dnl Check for allocator-related functions that should be wrapped.
AC_CHECK_FUNC([memalign],