[−][src]Trait alloc_wg::alloc::AllocRef

pub unsafe trait AllocRef {
    fn alloc(&mut self, layout: Layout) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr>;

    unsafe fn dealloc(&mut self, ptr: NonNull<u8>, layout: Layout);

    fn alloc_zeroed(
        &mut self, 
        layout: Layout
    ) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr> { ... }

    unsafe fn grow(
        &mut self, 
        ptr: NonNull<u8>, 
        old_layout: Layout, 
        new_layout: Layout
    ) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr> { ... }

    unsafe fn grow_zeroed(
        &mut self, 
        ptr: NonNull<u8>, 
        old_layout: Layout, 
        new_layout: Layout
    ) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr> { ... }

    unsafe fn shrink(
        &mut self, 
        ptr: NonNull<u8>, 
        old_layout: Layout, 
        new_layout: Layout
    ) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr> { ... }

    fn by_ref(&mut self) -> &mut Self { ... }
}
🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (allocator_api)

An implementation of AllocRef can allocate, grow, shrink, and deallocate arbitrary blocks of data described via Layout.

AllocRef is designed to be implemented on ZSTs, references, or smart pointers because having an allocator like MyAlloc([u8; N]) cannot be moved, without updating the pointers to the allocated memory.

Unlike GlobalAlloc, zero-sized allocations are allowed in AllocRef. If an underlying allocator does not support this (like jemalloc) or return a null pointer (such as libc::malloc), this must be caught by the implementation.

Currently allocated memory

Some of the methods require that a memory block be currently allocated via an allocator. This means that:

Memory fitting

Some of the methods require that a layout fit a memory block. What it means for a layout to "fit" a memory block means (or equivalently, for a memory block to "fit" a layout) is that the following conditions must hold:

Safety

Required methods

fn alloc(&mut self, layout: Layout) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr>

🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (allocator_api)

Attempts to allocate a block of memory.

On success, returns a [NonNull<[u8]>] meeting the size and alignment guarantees of layout.

The returned block may have a larger size than specified by layout.size(), and may or may not have its contents initialized.

[NonNull<[u8]>]: NonNull

Errors

Returning Err indicates that either memory is exhausted or layout does not meet allocator's size or alignment constraints.

Implementations are encouraged to return Err on memory exhaustion rather than panicking or aborting, but this is not a strict requirement. (Specifically: it is legal to implement this trait atop an underlying native allocation library that aborts on memory exhaustion.)

Clients wishing to abort computation in response to an allocation error are encouraged to call the handle_alloc_error function, rather than directly invoking panic! or similar.

unsafe fn dealloc(&mut self, ptr: NonNull<u8>, layout: Layout)

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Deallocates the memory referenced by ptr.

Safety

  • ptr must denote a block of memory currently allocated via this allocator, and
  • layout must fit that block of memory.
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Provided methods

fn alloc_zeroed(&mut self, layout: Layout) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr>

🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (allocator_api)

Behaves like alloc, but also ensures that the returned memory is zero-initialized.

Errors

Returning Err indicates that either memory is exhausted or layout does not meet allocator's size or alignment constraints.

Implementations are encouraged to return Err on memory exhaustion rather than panicking or aborting, but this is not a strict requirement. (Specifically: it is legal to implement this trait atop an underlying native allocation library that aborts on memory exhaustion.)

Clients wishing to abort computation in response to an allocation error are encouraged to call the handle_alloc_error function, rather than directly invoking panic! or similar.

unsafe fn grow(
    &mut self,
    ptr: NonNull<u8>,
    old_layout: Layout,
    new_layout: Layout
) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr>

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Attempts to extend the memory block.

Returns a new [NonNull<[u8]>] containing a pointer and the actual size of the allocated memory. The pointer is suitable for holding data described by new_layout. To accomplish this, the allocator may extend the allocation referenced by ptr to fit the new layout.

If this returns Ok, then ownership of the memory block referenced by ptr has been transferred to this allocator. The memory may or may not have been freed, and should be considered unusable unless it was transferred back to the caller again via the return value of this method.

If this method returns Err, then ownership of the memory block has not been transferred to this allocator, and the contents of the memory block are unaltered.

[NonNull<[u8]>]: NonNull

Safety

  • ptr must denote a block of memory currently allocated via this allocator.
  • old_layout must fit that block of memory (The new_layout argument need not fit it.).
  • new_layout.size() must be greater than or equal to old_layout.size().

Errors

Returns Err if the new layout does not meet the allocator's size and alignment constraints of the allocator, or if growing otherwise fails.

Implementations are encouraged to return Err on memory exhaustion rather than panicking or aborting, but this is not a strict requirement. (Specifically: it is legal to implement this trait atop an underlying native allocation library that aborts on memory exhaustion.)

Clients wishing to abort computation in response to an allocation error are encouraged to call the handle_alloc_error function, rather than directly invoking panic! or similar.

unsafe fn grow_zeroed(
    &mut self,
    ptr: NonNull<u8>,
    old_layout: Layout,
    new_layout: Layout
) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr>

🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (allocator_api)

Behaves like grow, but also ensures that the new contents are set to zero before being returned.

The memory block will contain the following contents after a successful call to grow_zeroed:

  • Bytes 0..old_layout.size() are preserved from the original allocation.
  • Bytes old_layout.size()..old_size will either be preserved or zeroed, depending on the allocator implementation. old_size refers to the size of the memory block prior to the grow_zeroed call, which may be larger than the size that was originally requested when it was allocated.
  • Bytes old_size..new_size are zeroed. new_size refers to the size of the memory block returned by the grow_zeroed call.

Safety

  • ptr must denote a block of memory currently allocated via this allocator.
  • old_layout must fit that block of memory (The new_layout argument need not fit it.).
  • new_layout.size() must be greater than or equal to old_layout.size().

Errors

Returns Err if the new layout does not meet the allocator's size and alignment constraints of the allocator, or if growing otherwise fails.

Implementations are encouraged to return Err on memory exhaustion rather than panicking or aborting, but this is not a strict requirement. (Specifically: it is legal to implement this trait atop an underlying native allocation library that aborts on memory exhaustion.)

Clients wishing to abort computation in response to an allocation error are encouraged to call the handle_alloc_error function, rather than directly invoking panic! or similar.

unsafe fn shrink(
    &mut self,
    ptr: NonNull<u8>,
    old_layout: Layout,
    new_layout: Layout
) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocErr>

🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (allocator_api)

Attempts to shrink the memory block.

Returns a new [NonNull<[u8]>] containing a pointer and the actual size of the allocated memory. The pointer is suitable for holding data described by new_layout. To accomplish this, the allocator may shrink the allocation referenced by ptr to fit the new layout.

If this returns Ok, then ownership of the memory block referenced by ptr has been transferred to this allocator. The memory may or may not have been freed, and should be considered unusable unless it was transferred back to the caller again via the return value of this method.

If this method returns Err, then ownership of the memory block has not been transferred to this allocator, and the contents of the memory block are unaltered.

[NonNull<[u8]>]: NonNull

Safety

  • ptr must denote a block of memory currently allocated via this allocator.
  • old_layout must fit that block of memory (The new_layout argument need not fit it.).
  • new_layout.size() must be smaller than or equal to old_layout.size().

Errors

Returns Err if the new layout does not meet the allocator's size and alignment constraints of the allocator, or if shrinking otherwise fails.

Implementations are encouraged to return Err on memory exhaustion rather than panicking or aborting, but this is not a strict requirement. (Specifically: it is legal to implement this trait atop an underlying native allocation library that aborts on memory exhaustion.)

Clients wishing to abort computation in response to an allocation error are encouraged to call the handle_alloc_error function, rather than directly invoking panic! or similar.

fn by_ref(&mut self) -> &mut Self

🔬 This is a nightly-only experimental API. (allocator_api)

Creates a "by reference" adaptor for this instance of AllocRef.

The returned adaptor also implements AllocRef and will simply borrow this.

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Implementations on Foreign Types

impl AllocRef for System[src]

impl<'_, A> AllocRef for &'_ mut A where
    A: AllocRef + ?Sized, [src]

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Implementors

impl AllocRef for Global[src]

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