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1 /* Garbage collection for the GNU compiler.
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3  Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 This file is part of GCC.
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7 GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
8 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
9 Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
10 version.
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12 GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
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14 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
15 for more details.
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17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see
19 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20 
21 #ifndef GCC_GGC_H
22 #define GCC_GGC_H
23 #include "statistics.h"
24 
25 /* Symbols are marked with `ggc' for `gcc gc' so as not to interfere with
26  an external gc library that might be linked in. */
27 
28 /* Constants for general use. */
29 extern const char empty_string[]; /* empty string */
30 
31 /* Internal functions and data structures used by the GTY
32  machinery, including the generated gt*.[hc] files. */
33 
34 #include "gtype-desc.h"
35 
36 /* One of these applies its third parameter (with cookie in the fourth
37  parameter) to each pointer in the object pointed to by the first
38  parameter, using the second parameter. */
39 typedef void (*gt_note_pointers) (void *, void *, gt_pointer_operator,
40  void *);
41 
42 /* One of these is called before objects are re-ordered in memory.
43  The first parameter is the original object, the second is the
44  subobject that has had its pointers reordered, the third parameter
45  can compute the new values of a pointer when given the cookie in
46  the fourth parameter. */
47 typedef void (*gt_handle_reorder) (void *, void *, gt_pointer_operator,
48  void *);
49 
50 /* Used by the gt_pch_n_* routines. Register an object in the hash table. */
51 extern int gt_pch_note_object (void *, void *, gt_note_pointers);
52 
53 /* Used by the gt_pch_n_* routines. Register that an object has a reorder
54  function. */
55 extern void gt_pch_note_reorder (void *, void *, gt_handle_reorder);
56 
57 /* Mark the object in the first parameter and anything it points to. */
58 typedef void (*gt_pointer_walker) (void *);
59 
60 /* Structures for the easy way to mark roots.
61  In an array, terminated by having base == NULL. */
62 struct ggc_root_tab {
63  void *base;
64  size_t nelt;
65  size_t stride;
68 };
69 #define LAST_GGC_ROOT_TAB { NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL }
70 /* Pointers to arrays of ggc_root_tab, terminated by NULL. */
71 extern const struct ggc_root_tab * const gt_ggc_rtab[];
72 extern const struct ggc_root_tab * const gt_ggc_deletable_rtab[];
73 extern const struct ggc_root_tab * const gt_pch_cache_rtab[];
74 extern const struct ggc_root_tab * const gt_pch_scalar_rtab[];
75 
76 /* Structure for hash table cache marking. */
77 struct htab;
78 struct ggc_cache_tab {
79  struct htab * *base;
80  size_t nelt;
81  size_t stride;
84  int (*marked_p) (const void *);
85 };
86 #define LAST_GGC_CACHE_TAB { NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL }
87 /* Pointers to arrays of ggc_cache_tab, terminated by NULL. */
88 extern const struct ggc_cache_tab * const gt_ggc_cache_rtab[];
89 
90 /* If EXPR is not NULL and previously unmarked, mark it and evaluate
91  to true. Otherwise evaluate to false. */
92 #define ggc_test_and_set_mark(EXPR) \
93  ((EXPR) != NULL && ((void *) (EXPR)) != (void *) 1 && ! ggc_set_mark (EXPR))
94 
95 #define ggc_mark(EXPR) \
96  do { \
97  const void *const a__ = (EXPR); \
98  if (a__ != NULL && a__ != (void *) 1) \
99  ggc_set_mark (a__); \
100  } while (0)
101 
102 /* Actually set the mark on a particular region of memory, but don't
103  follow pointers. This function is called by ggc_mark_*. It
104  returns zero if the object was not previously marked; nonzero if
105  the object was already marked, or if, for any other reason,
106  pointers in this data structure should not be traversed. */
107 extern int ggc_set_mark (const void *);
108 
109 /* Return 1 if P has been marked, zero otherwise.
110  P must have been allocated by the GC allocator; it mustn't point to
111  static objects, stack variables, or memory allocated with malloc. */
112 extern int ggc_marked_p (const void *);
113 
114 /* PCH and GGC handling for strings, mostly trivial. */
115 extern void gt_pch_n_S (const void *);
116 extern void gt_ggc_m_S (const void *);
117 
118 /* End of GTY machinery API. */
119 
120 /* Initialize the string pool. */
121 extern void init_stringpool (void);
122 
123 /* Initialize the garbage collector. */
124 extern void init_ggc (void);
125 
126 /* When true, identifier nodes are considered as GC roots. When
127  false, identifier nodes are treated like any other GC-allocated
128  object, and the identifier hash table is treated as a weak
129  hash. */
130 extern bool ggc_protect_identifiers;
131 
132 /* Write out all GCed objects to F. */
133 extern void gt_pch_save (FILE *f);
134 
135 
136 /* Allocation. */
137 
138 /* The internal primitive. */
139 extern void *ggc_internal_alloc_stat (size_t MEM_STAT_DECL)
140  ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC;
141 
142 extern size_t ggc_round_alloc_size (size_t requested_size);
143 
144 #define ggc_internal_alloc(s) ggc_internal_alloc_stat (s MEM_STAT_INFO)
145 
146 /* Allocates cleared memory. */
147 extern void *ggc_internal_cleared_alloc_stat (size_t MEM_STAT_DECL)
148  ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC;
149 
150 /* Resize a block. */
151 extern void *ggc_realloc_stat (void *, size_t MEM_STAT_DECL);
152 
153 /* Free a block. To be used when known for certain it's not reachable. */
154 extern void ggc_free (void *);
155 
156 extern void dump_ggc_loc_statistics (bool);
157 
158 /* Reallocators. */
159 #define GGC_RESIZEVEC(T, P, N) \
160  ((T *) ggc_realloc_stat ((P), (N) * sizeof (T) MEM_STAT_INFO))
161 
162 #define GGC_RESIZEVAR(T, P, N) \
163  ((T *) ggc_realloc_stat ((P), (N) MEM_STAT_INFO))
164 
165 static inline void *
166 ggc_internal_vec_alloc_stat (size_t s, size_t c MEM_STAT_DECL)
167 {
168  return ggc_internal_alloc_stat (c * s PASS_MEM_STAT);
169 }
170 
171 static inline void *
172 ggc_internal_cleared_vec_alloc_stat (size_t s, size_t c MEM_STAT_DECL)
173 {
174  return ggc_internal_cleared_alloc_stat (c * s PASS_MEM_STAT);
175 }
176 
177 #define ggc_internal_cleared_vec_alloc(s, c) \
178  (ggc_internal_cleared_vec_alloc_stat ((s), (c) MEM_STAT_INFO))
179 
180 static inline void *
181 ggc_alloc_atomic_stat (size_t s MEM_STAT_DECL)
182 {
183  return ggc_internal_alloc_stat (s PASS_MEM_STAT);
184 }
185 
186 #define ggc_alloc_atomic(S) (ggc_alloc_atomic_stat ((S) MEM_STAT_INFO))
187 
188 #define ggc_alloc_cleared_atomic(S) \
189  (ggc_internal_cleared_alloc_stat ((S) MEM_STAT_INFO))
190 
191 extern void *ggc_cleared_alloc_htab_ignore_args (size_t, size_t)
192  ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC;
193 
194 extern void *ggc_cleared_alloc_ptr_array_two_args (size_t, size_t)
195  ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC;
196 
197 #define htab_create_ggc(SIZE, HASH, EQ, DEL) \
198  htab_create_typed_alloc (SIZE, HASH, EQ, DEL, \
199  ggc_cleared_alloc_htab_ignore_args, \
200  ggc_cleared_alloc_ptr_array_two_args, \
201  ggc_free)
202 
203 #define splay_tree_new_ggc(COMPARE, ALLOC_TREE, ALLOC_NODE) \
204  splay_tree_new_typed_alloc (COMPARE, NULL, NULL, &ALLOC_TREE, &ALLOC_NODE, \
205  &ggc_splay_dont_free, NULL)
206 
207 extern void *ggc_splay_alloc (int, void *)
208  ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC;
209 
210 extern void ggc_splay_dont_free (void *, void *);
211 
212 /* Allocate a gc-able string, and fill it with LENGTH bytes from CONTENTS.
213  If LENGTH is -1, then CONTENTS is assumed to be a
214  null-terminated string and the memory sized accordingly. */
215 extern const char *ggc_alloc_string_stat (const char *contents, int length
216  MEM_STAT_DECL);
217 
218 #define ggc_alloc_string(c, l) ggc_alloc_string_stat (c, l MEM_STAT_INFO)
219 
220 /* Make a copy of S, in GC-able memory. */
221 #define ggc_strdup(S) ggc_alloc_string_stat ((S), -1 MEM_STAT_INFO)
222 
223 /* Invoke the collector. Garbage collection occurs only when this
224  function is called, not during allocations. */
225 extern void ggc_collect (void);
226 
227 /* Register an additional root table. This can be useful for some
228  plugins. Does nothing if the passed pointer is NULL. */
229 extern void ggc_register_root_tab (const struct ggc_root_tab *);
230 
231 /* Register an additional cache table. This can be useful for some
232  plugins. Does nothing if the passed pointer is NULL. */
233 extern void ggc_register_cache_tab (const struct ggc_cache_tab *);
234 
235 /* Read objects previously saved with gt_pch_save from F. */
236 extern void gt_pch_restore (FILE *f);
237 
238 /* Statistics. */
239 
240 /* Print allocation statistics. */
241 extern void ggc_print_statistics (void);
242 
243 extern void stringpool_statistics (void);
244 
245 /* Heuristics. */
246 extern void init_ggc_heuristics (void);
247 
248 #define ggc_alloc_rtvec_sized(NELT) \
249  ggc_alloc_rtvec_def (sizeof (struct rtvec_def) \
250  + ((NELT) - 1) * sizeof (rtx)) \
251 
252 /* Memory statistics passing versions of some allocators. Too few of them to
253  make gengtype produce them, so just define the needed ones here. */
254 static inline struct rtx_def *
255 ggc_alloc_rtx_def_stat (size_t s MEM_STAT_DECL)
256 {
257  return (struct rtx_def *) ggc_internal_alloc_stat (s PASS_MEM_STAT);
258 }
259 
260 static inline union tree_node *
261 ggc_alloc_tree_node_stat (size_t s MEM_STAT_DECL)
262 {
263  return (union tree_node *) ggc_internal_alloc_stat (s PASS_MEM_STAT);
264 }
265 
266 static inline union tree_node *
267 ggc_alloc_cleared_tree_node_stat (size_t s MEM_STAT_DECL)
268 {
269  return (union tree_node *) ggc_internal_cleared_alloc_stat (s PASS_MEM_STAT);
270 }
271 
272 static inline struct gimple_statement_base *
274 {
275  return (struct gimple_statement_base *)
276  ggc_internal_cleared_alloc_stat (s PASS_MEM_STAT);
277 }
278 
279 #endif