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-rw-r--r--src/heap.c50
-rw-r--r--src/heap.h8
2 files changed, 56 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/heap.c b/src/heap.c
index 9a01001..146c87b 100644
--- a/src/heap.c
+++ b/src/heap.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: heap.c,v 1.1 2002-05-23 04:41:10 rjkaes Exp $
+/* $Id: heap.c,v 1.2 2002-05-26 18:56:06 rjkaes Exp $
*
* Debugging versions of various heap related functions are combined
* here. The debugging versions include assertions and also print
@@ -90,3 +90,51 @@ debugging_strdup(const char* s, const char* file, unsigned long line)
fprintf(stderr, "{strdup: %p:%u} %s:%lu\n", ptr, len, file, line);
return ptr;
}
+
+/*
+ * Allocate a block of memory in the "shared" memory region
+ */
+void*
+malloc_shared_memory(size_t size)
+{
+ int fd;
+ void* ptr;
+
+ assert(size > 0);
+
+#ifdef MAP_ANON
+ ptr = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
+#else
+ fd = open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR, 0);
+
+ ptr = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
+ close(fd);
+#endif
+
+ return ptr;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Allocate a block of memory from the "shared" region an initialize it to
+ * zero.
+ */
+void*
+calloc_shared_memory(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
+{
+ void* ptr;
+ long length;
+
+ assert(nmemb > 0);
+ assert(size > 0);
+
+ length = nmemb * size;
+
+ ptr = malloc_shared_memory(length);
+ if (!ptr)
+ return NULL;
+
+ memset(ptr, 0, length);
+
+ return ptr;
+}
+
diff --git a/src/heap.h b/src/heap.h
index fca28cb..1bfe47a 100644
--- a/src/heap.h
+++ b/src/heap.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: heap.h,v 1.1 2002-05-23 04:41:10 rjkaes Exp $
+/* $Id: heap.h,v 1.2 2002-05-26 18:56:06 rjkaes Exp $
*
* See 'heap.c' for a detailed description.
*
@@ -46,4 +46,10 @@ extern char *debugging_strdup(const char* s, const char* file,
# define safestrdup(x) strdup(x)
#endif
+/*
+ * Allocate memory from the "shared" region of memory.
+ */
+extern void* malloc_shared_memory(size_t size);
+extern void* calloc_shared_memory(size_t nmemb, size_t size);
+
#endif