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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
/* Functionality related to memory alignment. */
#ifndef mozilla_Alignment_h
#define mozilla_Alignment_h
#include "mozilla/Attributes.h"
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
namespace mozilla {
/*
* This class, and the corresponding macro MOZ_ALIGNOF, figures out how many
* bytes of alignment a given type needs.
*/
template<typename T>
class AlignmentFinder
{
struct Aligner
{
char mChar;
T mT;
};
public:
static const size_t alignment = sizeof(Aligner) - sizeof(T);
};
#define MOZ_ALIGNOF(T) mozilla::AlignmentFinder<T>::alignment
/*
* Declare the MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL macro for declaring aligned types.
*
* For instance,
*
* MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(char arr[2], 8);
*
* will declare a two-character array |arr| aligned to 8 bytes.
*/
#if defined(__GNUC__)
# define MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(_type, _align) \
_type __attribute__((aligned(_align)))
#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
# define MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(_type, _align) \
__declspec(align(_align)) _type
#else
# warning "We don't know how to align variables on this compiler."
# define MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(_type, _align) _type
#endif
/*
* AlignedElem<N> is a structure whose alignment is guaranteed to be at least N
* bytes.
*
* We support 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16-bit alignment.
*/
template<size_t Align>
struct AlignedElem;
/*
* We have to specialize this template because GCC doesn't like
* __attribute__((aligned(foo))) where foo is a template parameter.
*/
template<>
struct AlignedElem<1>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 1);
};
template<>
struct AlignedElem<2>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 2);
};
template<>
struct AlignedElem<4>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 4);
};
template<>
struct AlignedElem<8>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 8);
};
template<>
struct AlignedElem<16>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 16);
};
/*
* This utility pales in comparison to Boost's aligned_storage. The utility
* simply assumes that uint64_t is enough alignment for anyone. This may need
* to be extended one day...
*
* As an important side effect, pulling the storage into this template is
* enough obfuscation to confuse gcc's strict-aliasing analysis into not giving
* false negatives when we cast from the char buffer to whatever type we've
* constructed using the bytes.
*/
template<size_t Nbytes>
struct AlignedStorage
{
union U
{
char mBytes[Nbytes];
uint64_t mDummy;
} u;
const void* addr() const { return u.mBytes; }
void* addr() { return u.mBytes; }
};
template<typename T>
struct MOZ_INHERIT_TYPE_ANNOTATIONS_FROM_TEMPLATE_ARGS AlignedStorage2
{
union U
{
char mBytes[sizeof(T)];
uint64_t mDummy;
} u;
const T* addr() const { return reinterpret_cast<const T*>(u.mBytes); }
T* addr() { return static_cast<T*>(static_cast<void*>(u.mBytes)); }
};
} /* namespace mozilla */
#endif /* mozilla_Alignment_h */