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1/* Return a pointer to a zero-size object in memory.
2 Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
8
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
13
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
16
17/* ISO C 99 does not allow memcmp(), memchr() etc. to be invoked with a NULL
18 argument. Therefore this file produces a non-NULL pointer which cannot
19 be dereferenced, if possible. */
20
21#include <stdlib.h>
22
23/* Test whether mmap() and mprotect() are available.
24 We don't use HAVE_MMAP, because AC_FUNC_MMAP would not define it on HP-UX.
25 HAVE_MPROTECT is not enough, because mingw does not have mmap() but has an
26 mprotect() function in libgcc.a. */
27#if HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H && HAVE_MPROTECT
28# include <fcntl.h>
29# include <unistd.h>
30# include <sys/types.h>
31# include <sys/mman.h>
32/* Define MAP_FILE when it isn't otherwise. */
33# ifndef MAP_FILE
34# define MAP_FILE 0
35# endif
36#endif
37
38/* Return a pointer to a zero-size object in memory (that is, actually, a
39 pointer to a page boundary where the previous page is readable and writable
40 and the next page is neither readable not writable), if possible.
41 Return NULL otherwise. */
42
43static void *
44zerosize_ptr (void)
45{
46/* Use mmap and mprotect when they exist. Don't test HAVE_MMAP, because it is
47 not defined on HP-UX 11 (since it does not support MAP_FIXED). */
48#if HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H && HAVE_MPROTECT
49# if HAVE_MAP_ANONYMOUS
50 const int flags = MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE;
51 const int fd = -1;
52# else /* !HAVE_MAP_ANONYMOUS */
53 const int flags = MAP_FILE | MAP_PRIVATE;
54 int fd = open ("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY, 0666);
55 if (fd >= 0)
56# endif
57 {
58 int pagesize = getpagesize ();
59 char *two_pages =
60 (char *) mmap (NULL, 2 * pagesize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
61 flags, fd, 0);
62 if (two_pages != (char *)(-1)
63 && mprotect (two_pages + pagesize, pagesize, PROT_NONE) == 0)
64 return two_pages + pagesize;
65 }
66#endif
67 return NULL;
68}
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