/************************************************************************* * Copyright (C) 2014 Tavian Barnes * * * * This file is part of The Dimension Library. * * * * The Dimension Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/ * * or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License * * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the * * License, or (at your option) any later version. * * * * The Dimension Library is distributed in the hope that it will be * * useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty * * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * * License along with this program. If not, see * * . * *************************************************************************/ /** * @file * Memory pools. Rather than more complicated garbage collection methods like * reference counting, objects are allocated out of pools which are freed all at * once once a scene is rendered (for example). */ #ifndef DMNSN_BASE_H #error "Please include instead of this header directly." #endif #include /* For size_t */ /* Forward-declare dmnsn_pool. */ typedef struct dmnsn_pool dmnsn_pool; /** * Create a new memory pool. * @return The new pool. */ dmnsn_pool *dmnsn_new_pool(void); /** * Allocate some memory from a pool. * @param[in] pool The memory pool to allocate from. * @param[in] size The size of the memory block to allocate. * @return The allocated memory area. */ void *dmnsn_palloc(dmnsn_pool *pool, size_t size); /** * Allocate some memory from a pool. * @param[in] pool The memory pool to allocate from. * @param[in] size The size of the memory block to allocate. * @param[in] cleanup_fn A callback to invoke before the memory is freed. * @return The allocated memory area. */ void *dmnsn_palloc_tidy(dmnsn_pool *pool, size_t size, dmnsn_callback_fn *cleanup_fn); /** * Allocate some memory from a pool. * @param[in] pool The memory pool to allocate from. * @param[in] type The type of the memory block to allocate. * @return The allocated memory area. */ #define DMNSN_PALLOC(pool, type) ((type *)dmnsn_palloc((pool), sizeof(type))) /** * Allocate some memory from a pool. * @param[in] pool The memory pool to allocate from. * @param[in] type The type of the memory block to allocate. * @param[in] cleanup_fn A callback to invoke before the memory is freed. * @return The allocated memory area. */ #define DMNSN_PALLOC_TIDY(pool, type, cleanup_fn) ((type *)dmnsn_palloc_tidy((pool), sizeof(type), (cleanup_fn))) /** * Free a memory pool and all associated allocations. * @param[in] pool The memory pool to free. */ void dmnsn_delete_pool(dmnsn_pool *pool);