OpenTTD-patches/src/core/alloc_func.hpp

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 */

/** @file alloc_func.hpp Functions related to the allocation of memory */

#ifndef ALLOC_FUNC_HPP
#define ALLOC_FUNC_HPP

/**
 * Functions to exit badly with an error message.
 * It has to be linked so the error messages are not
 * duplicated in each object file making the final
 * binary needlessly large.
 */
void NORETURN MallocError(size_t size);
void NORETURN ReallocError(size_t size);

/**
 * Simplified allocation function that allocates the specified number of
 * elements of the given type. It also explicitly casts it to the requested
 * type.
 * @note throws an error when there is no memory anymore.
 * @note the memory contains garbage data (i.e. possibly non-zero values).
 * @tparam T the type of the variable(s) to allocation.
 * @param num_elements the number of elements to allocate of the given type.
 * @return NULL when num_elements == 0, non-NULL otherwise.
 */
template <typename T>
static FORCEINLINE T *MallocT(size_t num_elements)
{
	/*
	 * MorphOS cannot handle 0 elements allocations, or rather that always
	 * returns NULL. So we do that for *all* allocations, thus causing it
	 * to behave the same on all OSes.
	 */
	if (num_elements == 0) return NULL;

	T *t_ptr = (T*)malloc(num_elements * sizeof(T));
	if (t_ptr == NULL) MallocError(num_elements * sizeof(T));
	return t_ptr;
}

/**
 * Simplified allocation function that allocates the specified number of
 * elements of the given type. It also explicitly casts it to the requested
 * type.
 * @note throws an error when there is no memory anymore.
 * @note the memory contains all zero values.
 * @tparam T the type of the variable(s) to allocation.
 * @param num_elements the number of elements to allocate of the given type.
 * @return NULL when num_elements == 0, non-NULL otherwise.
 */
template <typename T>
static FORCEINLINE T *CallocT(size_t num_elements)
{
	/*
	 * MorphOS cannot handle 0 elements allocations, or rather that always
	 * returns NULL. So we do that for *all* allocations, thus causing it
	 * to behave the same on all OSes.
	 */
	if (num_elements == 0) return NULL;

	T *t_ptr = (T*)calloc(num_elements, sizeof(T));
	if (t_ptr == NULL) MallocError(num_elements * sizeof(T));
	return t_ptr;
}

/**
 * Simplified reallocation function that allocates the specified number of
 * elements of the given type. It also explicitly casts it to the requested
 * type. It extends/shrinks the memory allocation given in t_ptr.
 * @note throws an error when there is no memory anymore.
 * @note the pointer to the data may change, but the data will remain valid.
 * @tparam T the type of the variable(s) to allocation.
 * @param t_ptr the previous allocation to extend/shrink.
 * @param num_elements the number of elements to allocate of the given type.
 * @return NULL when num_elements == 0, non-NULL otherwise.
 */
template <typename T>
static FORCEINLINE T *ReallocT(T *t_ptr, size_t num_elements)
{
	/*
	 * MorphOS cannot handle 0 elements allocations, or rather that always
	 * returns NULL. So we do that for *all* allocations, thus causing it
	 * to behave the same on all OSes.
	 */
	if (num_elements == 0) {
		free(t_ptr);
		return NULL;
	}

	t_ptr = (T*)realloc(t_ptr, num_elements * sizeof(T));
	if (t_ptr == NULL) ReallocError(num_elements * sizeof(T));
	return t_ptr;
}

/** alloca() has to be called in the parent function, so define AllocaM() as a macro */
#define AllocaM(T, num_elements) ((T*)alloca((num_elements) * sizeof(T)))

#endif /* ALLOC_FUNC_HPP */