{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-implicit-prelude #-} ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- | -- Module : Foreign.Marshal.Alloc -- Copyright : (c) The FFI task force 2001 -- License : BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) -- -- Maintainer : ffi@haskell.org -- Stability : provisional -- Portability : portable -- -- Marshalling support: basic routines for memory allocation -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- module Foreign.Marshal.Alloc ( -- * Memory allocation -- ** Local allocation alloca, -- :: Storable a => (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b allocaBytes, -- :: Int -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b -- ** Dynamic allocation malloc, -- :: Storable a => IO (Ptr a) mallocBytes, -- :: Int -> IO (Ptr a) realloc, -- :: Storable b => Ptr a -> IO (Ptr b) reallocBytes, -- :: Ptr a -> Int -> IO (Ptr a) free, -- :: Ptr a -> IO () finalizerFree -- :: FinalizerPtr a ) where import Data.Maybe import Foreign.Ptr ( Ptr, nullPtr, FunPtr ) import Foreign.C.Types ( CSize ) import Foreign.Storable ( Storable(sizeOf) ) #ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ import Foreign.ForeignPtr ( FinalizerPtr ) import GHC.IOBase import GHC.Real import GHC.Ptr import GHC.Err import GHC.Base import GHC.Num #elif defined(__NHC__) import NHC.FFI ( FinalizerPtr, CInt(..) ) import IO ( bracket ) #else import Control.Exception ( bracket ) #endif #ifdef __HUGS__ import Hugs.Prelude ( IOException(IOError), IOErrorType(ResourceExhausted) ) import Hugs.ForeignPtr ( FinalizerPtr ) #endif -- exported functions -- ------------------ -- |Allocate a block of memory that is sufficient to hold values of type -- @a@. The size of the area allocated is determined by the 'sizeOf' -- method from the instance of 'Storable' for the appropriate type. -- -- The memory may be deallocated using 'free' or 'finalizerFree' when -- no longer required. -- malloc :: Storable a => IO (Ptr a) malloc = doMalloc undefined where doMalloc :: Storable b => b -> IO (Ptr b) doMalloc dummy = mallocBytes (sizeOf dummy) -- |Allocate a block of memory of the given number of bytes. -- The block of memory is sufficiently aligned for any of the basic -- foreign types that fits into a memory block of the allocated size. -- -- The memory may be deallocated using 'free' or 'finalizerFree' when -- no longer required. -- mallocBytes :: Int -> IO (Ptr a) mallocBytes size = failWhenNULL "malloc" (_malloc (fromIntegral size)) -- |@'alloca' f@ executes the computation @f@, passing as argument -- a pointer to a temporarily allocated block of memory sufficient to -- hold values of type @a@. -- -- The memory is freed when @f@ terminates (either normally or via an -- exception), so the pointer passed to @f@ must /not/ be used after this. -- alloca :: Storable a => (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b alloca = doAlloca undefined where doAlloca :: Storable a' => a' -> (Ptr a' -> IO b') -> IO b' doAlloca dummy = allocaBytes (sizeOf dummy) -- |@'allocaBytes' n f@ executes the computation @f@, passing as argument -- a pointer to a temporarily allocated block of memory of @n@ bytes. -- The block of memory is sufficiently aligned for any of the basic -- foreign types that fits into a memory block of the allocated size. -- -- The memory is freed when @f@ terminates (either normally or via an -- exception), so the pointer passed to @f@ must /not/ be used after this. -- #ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ allocaBytes :: Int -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b allocaBytes (I# size) action = IO $ \ s -> case newPinnedByteArray# size s of { (# s, mbarr# #) -> case unsafeFreezeByteArray# mbarr# s of { (# s, barr# #) -> let addr = Ptr (byteArrayContents# barr#) in case action addr of { IO action -> case action s of { (# s, r #) -> case touch# barr# s of { s -> (# s, r #) }}}}} #else allocaBytes :: Int -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b allocaBytes size = bracket (mallocBytes size) free #endif -- |Resize a memory area that was allocated with 'malloc' or 'mallocBytes' -- to the size needed to store values of type @b@. The returned pointer -- may refer to an entirely different memory area, but will be suitably -- aligned to hold values of type @b@. The contents of the referenced -- memory area will be the same as of the original pointer up to the -- minimum of the original size and the size of values of type @b@. -- -- If the argument to 'realloc' is 'nullPtr', 'realloc' behaves like -- 'malloc'. -- realloc :: Storable b => Ptr a -> IO (Ptr b) realloc = doRealloc undefined where doRealloc :: Storable b' => b' -> Ptr a' -> IO (Ptr b') doRealloc dummy ptr = let size = fromIntegral (sizeOf dummy) in failWhenNULL "realloc" (_realloc ptr size) -- |Resize a memory area that was allocated with 'malloc' or 'mallocBytes' -- to the given size. The returned pointer may refer to an entirely -- different memory area, but will be sufficiently aligned for any of the -- basic foreign types that fits into a memory block of the given size. -- The contents of the referenced memory area will be the same as of -- the original pointer up to the minimum of the original size and the -- given size. -- -- If the pointer argument to 'reallocBytes' is 'nullPtr', 'reallocBytes' -- behaves like 'malloc'. If the requested size is 0, 'reallocBytes' -- behaves like 'free'. -- reallocBytes :: Ptr a -> Int -> IO (Ptr a) reallocBytes ptr 0 = do free ptr; return nullPtr reallocBytes ptr size = failWhenNULL "realloc" (_realloc ptr (fromIntegral size)) -- |Free a block of memory that was allocated with 'malloc', -- 'mallocBytes', 'realloc', 'reallocBytes', 'Foreign.Marshal.Utils.new' -- or any of the @new@/X/ functions in "Foreign.Marshal.Array" or -- "Foreign.C.String". -- free :: Ptr a -> IO () free = _free -- auxilliary routines -- ------------------- -- asserts that the pointer returned from the action in the second argument is -- non-null -- failWhenNULL :: String -> IO (Ptr a) -> IO (Ptr a) failWhenNULL name f = do addr <- f if addr == nullPtr #if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ || __HUGS__ then ioError (IOError Nothing ResourceExhausted name "out of memory" Nothing) #else then ioError (userError (name++": out of memory")) #endif else return addr -- basic C routines needed for memory allocation -- foreign import ccall unsafe "stdlib.h malloc" _malloc :: CSize -> IO (Ptr a) foreign import ccall unsafe "stdlib.h realloc" _realloc :: Ptr a -> CSize -> IO (Ptr b) foreign import ccall unsafe "stdlib.h free" _free :: Ptr a -> IO () -- | A pointer to a foreign function equivalent to 'free', which may be -- used as a finalizer (cf 'Foreign.ForeignPtr.ForeignPtr') for storage -- allocated with 'malloc', 'mallocBytes', 'realloc' or 'reallocBytes'. foreign import ccall unsafe "stdlib.h &free" finalizerFree :: FinalizerPtr a