Valgrind's allocator, by overlapping the redzones (used when blocks
are in-use) with the prev/next ptrs (used when they are free).
This reduces the overhead for a heap block allocated by the core from
32B to 16B on 32 bit machines, and from 48B to 32B on 64 bit machines.
The only conceivable downside of this is that on 64 bit machines, if
the client frees a block and then writes past the start/end of it,
it will corrupt the metadata after only 8 bytes of overwriting, rather than
16 bytes. Memcheck will have squealed to kingdom come by this time anyway.
(This won't happen on 32 bit machines because the overhead hasn't changed
for client blocks as allocated by Memcheck on 32 bit machines.)
I also tweaked the access functions.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@4208
remaining ones have no interesting effect, but I left them in.
Also simplify the signature for VG_(get_memory_from_mmap_for_client)().
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@4045
I've changed it so it now is, which makes it consistent with the
other 'needs'. Because of this, I was also able to invert the dependence
between m_mallocfree and m_tooliface, which is related to setting
the redzone size for client heap blocks. As a result, m_tooliface
now doesn't depend on anything except pub_core_basics.h, hooray!
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3979
m_libcmman, next to VG_(get_memory_from_mmap). Removes the (direct)
dependence of m_mallocfree on m_aspacemgr.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3962
- Broke part of m_scheduler off into a new module m_threadstate. It
contains ThreadState, VG_(threads)[] and some basic operations on the
thread table. All simple stuff, the complex stuff stays in m_scheduler.
This avoids lots of circular dependencies between m_scheduler and other
modules.
- Managed to finally remove core.h and tool.h, double hurrah!
- Introduced pub_tool_basics.h and pub_core_basics.h, one of which is
include by every single C file.
- Lots of little cleanups and changes related to the above.
- I even did a small amount of documentation updating.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3944
needs to #include pub_core_mallocfree.h. As a result, we need
to #include it explicitly everywhere else.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3881
As part of this, killed the VG_STRINGIFY macro, which was used to expand
out names like "VG_(foo)" and "vgPlain_foo" in assertion failure
messages. This is good since we actually want the "VG_(foo)" form used
in these messages.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3842
relying on any other modules -- in m_libcbase.
Also converted the 'size' parameters to functions like VG_(memcpy) and
VG_(strncpy) from Int to SizeT, as they should be.
Also removed VG_(atoll16) and VG_(toupper), which weren't being used.
Also made VG_(atoll36) less flexible -- it now only does base-36 numbers
instead of any base in the range 2..36, since base-36 is the only one we
need. As part of that, I fixed a horrible bug in it which caused it to
return incorrect answers for any number containing the digits 'A'..'I'!
(Eg. for "A; it would return 17 instead of 10!)
Had to disable the assertions in VG_(string_match), since this module can't
see vg_assert, which wasn't ideal but also isn't a disaster.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3838
sensible now -- no vg_dummy_profile.c, no silly #including of
vg_profile.c from tools.
Unfortunately, it still doesn't work, due to bad interactions
with signal handling that I don't understand.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3833
each small allocation size its own list. Otherwise there can
be very long searches along lists looking for a block of the
right size.
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rather than `foo', as www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html explains
we should (in more detail than you'd imagine was possible). I did this
both in output messages and in some comments, for consistency.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3723
malloc/free implementation, and m_replacemalloc with the stuff for the tools
that replace malloc with their own version. Previously these two areas of
functionality were mixed up somewhat.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3648
