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authorKinsey Moore <kmoore@digium.com>2012-07-31 20:21:43 +0000
committerKinsey Moore <kmoore@digium.com>2012-07-31 20:21:43 +0000
commit9b16c8b0f6c3b6310e303411421bfcb16b26c3c4 (patch)
tree273c31a834a21bd2239ec6b83cd35c602ea25d26 /include/asterisk/utils.h
parent6c23a60f802e7708389b1a6463a40dc0500512bd (diff)
Clean up and ensure proper usage of alloca()
This replaces all calls to alloca() with ast_alloca() which calls gcc's __builtin_alloca() to avoid BSD semantics and removes all NULL checks on memory allocated via ast_alloca() and ast_strdupa(). (closes issue ASTERISK-20125) Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2032/ Patch-by: Walter Doekes (wdoekes) ........ Merged revisions 370642 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/1.8 ........ Merged revisions 370643 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/10 git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@370655 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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diff --git a/include/asterisk/utils.h b/include/asterisk/utils.h
index edc01d4df..a417cf4d3 100644
--- a/include/asterisk/utils.h
+++ b/include/asterisk/utils.h
@@ -646,6 +646,15 @@ int _ast_vasprintf(char **ret, const char *file, int lineno, const char *func, c
#endif /* AST_DEBUG_MALLOC */
+/*!
+ \brief call __builtin_alloca to ensure we get gcc builtin semantics
+ \param size The size of the buffer we want allocated
+
+ This macro will attempt to allocate memory from the stack. If it fails
+ you won't get a NULL returned, but a SEGFAULT if you're lucky.
+*/
+#define ast_alloca(size) __builtin_alloca(size)
+
#if !defined(ast_strdupa) && defined(__GNUC__)
/*!
* \brief duplicate a string in memory from the stack