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Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +00001/* The PyMem_ family: low-level memory allocation interfaces.
2 See objimpl.h for the PyObject_ memory family.
3*/
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +00004
5#ifndef Py_PYMEM_H
6#define Py_PYMEM_H
7
8#include "pyport.h"
9
10#ifdef __cplusplus
11extern "C" {
12#endif
13
Martin v. Löwis1c0689c2014-01-03 21:36:49 +010014#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +020015PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyMem_RawMalloc(size_t size);
Victor Stinnerdb067af2014-05-02 22:31:14 +020016PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyMem_RawCalloc(size_t nelem, size_t elsize);
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +020017PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyMem_RawRealloc(void *ptr, size_t new_size);
18PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyMem_RawFree(void *ptr);
Victor Stinner34be807c2016-03-14 12:04:26 +010019
20/* Configure the Python memory allocators. Pass NULL to use default
21 allocators. */
22PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyMem_SetupAllocators(const char *opt);
23
24#ifdef WITH_PYMALLOC
25PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyMem_PymallocEnabled(void);
Martin v. Löwis1c0689c2014-01-03 21:36:49 +010026#endif
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +020027
Victor Stinner34be807c2016-03-14 12:04:26 +010028#endif /* !Py_LIMITED_API */
29
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +020030
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +000031/* BEWARE:
32
Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +000033 Each interface exports both functions and macros. Extension modules should
34 use the functions, to ensure binary compatibility across Python versions.
35 Because the Python implementation is free to change internal details, and
36 the macros may (or may not) expose details for speed, if you do use the
37 macros you must recompile your extensions with each Python release.
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +000038
Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +000039 Never mix calls to PyMem_ with calls to the platform malloc/realloc/
40 calloc/free. For example, on Windows different DLLs may end up using
41 different heaps, and if you use PyMem_Malloc you'll get the memory from the
42 heap used by the Python DLL; it could be a disaster if you free()'ed that
43 directly in your own extension. Using PyMem_Free instead ensures Python
44 can return the memory to the proper heap. As another example, in
45 PYMALLOC_DEBUG mode, Python wraps all calls to all PyMem_ and PyObject_
46 memory functions in special debugging wrappers that add additional
47 debugging info to dynamic memory blocks. The system routines have no idea
48 what to do with that stuff, and the Python wrappers have no idea what to do
49 with raw blocks obtained directly by the system routines then.
Guido van Rossum360e4b82007-05-14 22:51:27 +000050
51 The GIL must be held when using these APIs.
Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +000052*/
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +000053
54/*
55 * Raw memory interface
56 * ====================
57 */
58
Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +000059/* Functions
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +000060
Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +000061 Functions supplying platform-independent semantics for malloc/realloc/
62 free. These functions make sure that allocating 0 bytes returns a distinct
Tim Petersaf3e8de2002-04-12 07:22:56 +000063 non-NULL pointer (whenever possible -- if we're flat out of memory, NULL
64 may be returned), even if the platform malloc and realloc don't.
65 Returned pointers must be checked for NULL explicitly. No action is
Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +000066 performed on failure (no exception is set, no warning is printed, etc).
67*/
Tim Petersaf3e8de2002-04-12 07:22:56 +000068
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +020069PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyMem_Malloc(size_t size);
Victor Stinnerdb067af2014-05-02 22:31:14 +020070PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyMem_Calloc(size_t nelem, size_t elsize);
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +020071PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyMem_Realloc(void *ptr, size_t new_size);
72PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyMem_Free(void *ptr);
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +000073
Martin v. Löwis1c0689c2014-01-03 21:36:49 +010074#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
Victor Stinner49fc8ec2013-07-07 23:30:24 +020075PyAPI_FUNC(char *) _PyMem_RawStrdup(const char *str);
76PyAPI_FUNC(char *) _PyMem_Strdup(const char *str);
Martin v. Löwis1c0689c2014-01-03 21:36:49 +010077#endif
Victor Stinner49fc8ec2013-07-07 23:30:24 +020078
Tim Petersaf3e8de2002-04-12 07:22:56 +000079/* Macros. */
Tim Peters51e7f5c2002-04-22 02:33:27 +000080
Martin v. Löwis39f59b02002-11-23 09:13:40 +000081/* PyMem_MALLOC(0) means malloc(1). Some systems would return NULL
82 for malloc(0), which would be treated as an error. Some platforms
83 would return a pointer with no memory behind it, which would break
84 pymalloc. To solve these problems, allocate an extra byte. */
Georg Brandld492ad82008-07-23 16:13:07 +000085/* Returns NULL to indicate error if a negative size or size larger than
86 Py_ssize_t can represent is supplied. Helps prevents security holes. */
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +020087#define PyMem_MALLOC(n) PyMem_Malloc(n)
88#define PyMem_REALLOC(p, n) PyMem_Realloc(p, n)
89#define PyMem_FREE(p) PyMem_Free(p)
Tim Petersaf3e8de2002-04-12 07:22:56 +000090
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +000091/*
92 * Type-oriented memory interface
93 * ==============================
Tim Petersaf3e8de2002-04-12 07:22:56 +000094 *
Georg Brandld492ad82008-07-23 16:13:07 +000095 * Allocate memory for n objects of the given type. Returns a new pointer
96 * or NULL if the request was too large or memory allocation failed. Use
97 * these macros rather than doing the multiplication yourself so that proper
98 * overflow checking is always done.
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +000099 */
100
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +0000101#define PyMem_New(type, n) \
Mark Dickinsonbbe63062010-02-14 14:08:54 +0000102 ( ((size_t)(n) > PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / sizeof(type)) ? NULL : \
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9c74b142008-06-18 00:47:36 +0000103 ( (type *) PyMem_Malloc((n) * sizeof(type)) ) )
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +0000104#define PyMem_NEW(type, n) \
Mark Dickinsonbbe63062010-02-14 14:08:54 +0000105 ( ((size_t)(n) > PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / sizeof(type)) ? NULL : \
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9c74b142008-06-18 00:47:36 +0000106 ( (type *) PyMem_MALLOC((n) * sizeof(type)) ) )
Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +0000107
Georg Brandld492ad82008-07-23 16:13:07 +0000108/*
109 * The value of (p) is always clobbered by this macro regardless of success.
110 * The caller MUST check if (p) is NULL afterwards and deal with the memory
111 * error if so. This means the original value of (p) MUST be saved for the
112 * caller's memory error handler to not lose track of it.
113 */
Tim Peters8b078f92002-04-28 04:11:46 +0000114#define PyMem_Resize(p, type, n) \
Mark Dickinsonbbe63062010-02-14 14:08:54 +0000115 ( (p) = ((size_t)(n) > PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / sizeof(type)) ? NULL : \
Georg Brandld492ad82008-07-23 16:13:07 +0000116 (type *) PyMem_Realloc((p), (n) * sizeof(type)) )
Tim Petersaf3e8de2002-04-12 07:22:56 +0000117#define PyMem_RESIZE(p, type, n) \
Mark Dickinsonbbe63062010-02-14 14:08:54 +0000118 ( (p) = ((size_t)(n) > PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / sizeof(type)) ? NULL : \
Georg Brandld492ad82008-07-23 16:13:07 +0000119 (type *) PyMem_REALLOC((p), (n) * sizeof(type)) )
Tim Petersa5d78cc2002-03-02 08:43:19 +0000120
Thomas Wouters49fd7fa2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000121/* PyMem{Del,DEL} are left over from ancient days, and shouldn't be used
122 * anymore. They're just confusing aliases for PyMem_{Free,FREE} now.
123 */
124#define PyMem_Del PyMem_Free
125#define PyMem_DEL PyMem_FREE
Tim Petersddea2082002-03-23 10:03:50 +0000126
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +0200127#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
128typedef enum {
129 /* PyMem_RawMalloc(), PyMem_RawRealloc() and PyMem_RawFree() */
130 PYMEM_DOMAIN_RAW,
131
132 /* PyMem_Malloc(), PyMem_Realloc() and PyMem_Free() */
133 PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM,
134
135 /* PyObject_Malloc(), PyObject_Realloc() and PyObject_Free() */
136 PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ
137} PyMemAllocatorDomain;
138
139typedef struct {
Victor Stinnerd8f0d922014-06-02 21:57:10 +0200140 /* user context passed as the first argument to the 4 functions */
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +0200141 void *ctx;
142
143 /* allocate a memory block */
144 void* (*malloc) (void *ctx, size_t size);
145
Victor Stinnerdb067af2014-05-02 22:31:14 +0200146 /* allocate a memory block initialized by zeros */
147 void* (*calloc) (void *ctx, size_t nelem, size_t elsize);
148
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +0200149 /* allocate or resize a memory block */
150 void* (*realloc) (void *ctx, void *ptr, size_t new_size);
151
152 /* release a memory block */
153 void (*free) (void *ctx, void *ptr);
Victor Stinnerd8f0d922014-06-02 21:57:10 +0200154} PyMemAllocatorEx;
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +0200155
156/* Get the memory block allocator of the specified domain. */
157PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyMem_GetAllocator(PyMemAllocatorDomain domain,
Victor Stinnerd8f0d922014-06-02 21:57:10 +0200158 PyMemAllocatorEx *allocator);
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +0200159
160/* Set the memory block allocator of the specified domain.
161
162 The new allocator must return a distinct non-NULL pointer when requesting
163 zero bytes.
164
165 For the PYMEM_DOMAIN_RAW domain, the allocator must be thread-safe: the GIL
166 is not held when the allocator is called.
167
168 If the new allocator is not a hook (don't call the previous allocator), the
169 PyMem_SetupDebugHooks() function must be called to reinstall the debug hooks
170 on top on the new allocator. */
171PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyMem_SetAllocator(PyMemAllocatorDomain domain,
Victor Stinnerd8f0d922014-06-02 21:57:10 +0200172 PyMemAllocatorEx *allocator);
Victor Stinner0507bf52013-07-07 02:05:46 +0200173
174/* Setup hooks to detect bugs in the following Python memory allocator
175 functions:
176
177 - PyMem_RawMalloc(), PyMem_RawRealloc(), PyMem_RawFree()
178 - PyMem_Malloc(), PyMem_Realloc(), PyMem_Free()
179 - PyObject_Malloc(), PyObject_Realloc() and PyObject_Free()
180
181 Newly allocated memory is filled with the byte 0xCB, freed memory is filled
182 with the byte 0xDB. Additionnal checks:
183
184 - detect API violations, ex: PyObject_Free() called on a buffer allocated
185 by PyMem_Malloc()
186 - detect write before the start of the buffer (buffer underflow)
187 - detect write after the end of the buffer (buffer overflow)
188
189 The function does nothing if Python is not compiled is debug mode. */
190PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyMem_SetupDebugHooks(void);
191#endif
192
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +0000193#ifdef __cplusplus
194}
195#endif
196
Peter Schneider-Kamp25f68942000-07-31 22:19:30 +0000197#endif /* !Py_PYMEM_H */