/* -*- 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 #include namespace mozilla { /* * This class, and the corresponding macro MOZ_ALIGNOF, figures out how many * bytes of alignment a given type needs. */ template class AlignmentFinder { struct Aligner { char mChar; T mT; }; public: static const size_t alignment = sizeof(Aligner) - sizeof(T); }; #define MOZ_ALIGNOF(T) mozilla::AlignmentFinder::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 is a structure whose alignment is guaranteed to be at least N * bytes. * * We support 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16-bit alignment. */ template 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 struct AlignedStorage { union U { char mBytes[Nbytes]; uint64_t mDummy; } u; const void* addr() const { return u.mBytes; } void* addr() { return u.mBytes; } }; template struct AlignedStorage2 { union U { char mBytes[sizeof(T)]; uint64_t mDummy; } u; const T* addr() const { return reinterpret_cast(u.mBytes); } T* addr() { return static_cast(static_cast(u.mBytes)); } }; } /* namespace mozilla */ #endif /* mozilla_Alignment_h */