ceremonyclient/pebble/internal/manual/manual.go

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// Copyright 2020 The LevelDB-Go and Pebble Authors. All rights reserved. Use
// of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in
// the LICENSE file.
package manual
// #include <stdlib.h>
import "C"
import "unsafe"
// The go:linkname directives provides backdoor access to private functions in
// the runtime. Below we're accessing the throw function.
//go:linkname throw runtime.throw
func throw(s string)
// TODO(peter): Rather than relying an C malloc/free, we could fork the Go
// runtime page allocator and allocate large chunks of memory using mmap or
// similar.
// New allocates a slice of size n. The returned slice is from manually managed
// memory and MUST be released by calling Free. Failure to do so will result in
// a memory leak.
func New(n int) []byte {
if n == 0 {
return make([]byte, 0)
}
// We need to be conscious of the Cgo pointer passing rules:
//
// https://golang.org/cmd/cgo/#hdr-Passing_pointers
//
// ...
// Note: the current implementation has a bug. While Go code is permitted
// to write nil or a C pointer (but not a Go pointer) to C memory, the
// current implementation may sometimes cause a runtime error if the
// contents of the C memory appear to be a Go pointer. Therefore, avoid
// passing uninitialized C memory to Go code if the Go code is going to
// store pointer values in it. Zero out the memory in C before passing it
// to Go.
ptr := C.calloc(C.size_t(n), 1)
if ptr == nil {
// NB: throw is like panic, except it guarantees the process will be
// terminated. The call below is exactly what the Go runtime invokes when
// it cannot allocate memory.
throw("out of memory")
}
// Interpret the C pointer as a pointer to a Go array, then slice.
return (*[MaxArrayLen]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(ptr))[:n:n]
}
// Free frees the specified slice.
func Free(b []byte) {
if cap(b) != 0 {
if len(b) == 0 {
b = b[:cap(b)]
}
ptr := unsafe.Pointer(&b[0])
C.free(ptr)
}
}