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authormisterg <misterg@google.com>2017-09-19T20·54-0400
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+// Copyright 2017 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+//
+
+#ifndef ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_H_
+#define ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_H_
+
+// A simple thread-safe memory allocator that does not depend on
+// mutexes or thread-specific data.  It is intended to be used
+// sparingly, and only when malloc() would introduce an unwanted
+// dependency, such as inside the heap-checker, or the Mutex
+// implementation.
+
+// IWYU pragma: private, include "base/low_level_alloc.h"
+
+#include <cstdint>
+
+#include "absl/base/config.h"
+
+// LowLevelAlloc requires that the platform support low-level
+// allocation of virtual memory. Platforms lacking this cannot use
+// LowLevelAlloc.
+#ifdef ABSL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_MISSING
+#error ABSL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_MISSING cannot be directly set
+#elif !defined(ABSL_HAVE_MMAP) && !defined(_WIN32)
+#define ABSL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_MISSING 1
+#endif
+
+// Using LowLevelAlloc with kAsyncSignalSafe isn't supported on Windows.
+#ifdef ABSL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_ASYNC_SIGNAL_SAFE_MISSING
+#error ABSL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_ASYNC_SIGNAL_SAFE_MISSING cannot be directly set
+#elif defined(_WIN32)
+#define ABSL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_ASYNC_SIGNAL_SAFE_MISSING 1
+#endif
+
+#include <cstddef>
+
+#include "absl/base/port.h"
+
+namespace absl {
+namespace base_internal {
+
+class LowLevelAlloc {
+ public:
+  struct Arena;       // an arena from which memory may be allocated
+
+  // Returns a pointer to a block of at least "request" bytes
+  // that have been newly allocated from the specific arena.
+  // for Alloc() call the DefaultArena() is used.
+  // Returns 0 if passed request==0.
+  // Does not return 0 under other circumstances; it crashes if memory
+  // is not available.
+  static void *Alloc(size_t request) ABSL_ATTRIBUTE_SECTION(malloc_hook);
+  static void *AllocWithArena(size_t request, Arena *arena)
+      ABSL_ATTRIBUTE_SECTION(malloc_hook);
+
+  // Deallocates a region of memory that was previously allocated with
+  // Alloc().   Does nothing if passed 0.   "s" must be either 0,
+  // or must have been returned from a call to Alloc() and not yet passed to
+  // Free() since that call to Alloc().  The space is returned to the arena
+  // from which it was allocated.
+  static void Free(void *s) ABSL_ATTRIBUTE_SECTION(malloc_hook);
+
+  // ABSL_ATTRIBUTE_SECTION(malloc_hook) for Alloc* and Free
+  // are to put all callers of MallocHook::Invoke* in this module
+  // into special section,
+  // so that MallocHook::GetCallerStackTrace can function accurately.
+
+  // Create a new arena.
+  // The root metadata for the new arena is allocated in the
+  // meta_data_arena; the DefaultArena() can be passed for meta_data_arena.
+  // These values may be ored into flags:
+  enum {
+    // Report calls to Alloc() and Free() via the MallocHook interface.
+    // Set in the DefaultArena.
+    kCallMallocHook = 0x0001,
+
+#ifndef ABSL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_ASYNC_SIGNAL_SAFE_MISSING
+    // Make calls to Alloc(), Free() be async-signal-safe. Not set in
+    // DefaultArena(). Not supported on all platforms.
+    kAsyncSignalSafe = 0x0002,
+#endif
+
+    // When used with DefaultArena(), the NewArena() and DeleteArena() calls
+    // obey the flags given explicitly in the NewArena() call, even if those
+    // flags differ from the settings in DefaultArena().  So the call
+    // NewArena(kAsyncSignalSafe, DefaultArena()) is itself async-signal-safe,
+    // as well as generatating an arena that provides async-signal-safe
+    // Alloc/Free.
+  };
+  static Arena *NewArena(int32_t flags, Arena *meta_data_arena);
+
+  // Destroys an arena allocated by NewArena and returns true,
+  // provided no allocated blocks remain in the arena.
+  // If allocated blocks remain in the arena, does nothing and
+  // returns false.
+  // It is illegal to attempt to destroy the DefaultArena().
+  static bool DeleteArena(Arena *arena);
+
+  // The default arena that always exists.
+  static Arena *DefaultArena();
+
+ private:
+  LowLevelAlloc();      // no instances
+};
+
+}  // namespace base_internal
+}  // namespace absl
+#endif  // ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_LOW_LEVEL_ALLOC_H_