* everything that should be freed. See utils/mmgr/README for more info.
*
*
- * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2003, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $Id: palloc.h,v 1.23 2002/11/13 00:37:06 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: palloc.h,v 1.26 2003/08/04 02:40:15 momjian Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
* Fundamental memory-allocation operations (more are in utils/memutils.h)
*/
extern void *MemoryContextAlloc(MemoryContext context, Size size);
-extern void *MemoryContextAllocPalloc0(MemoryContext context, Size size);
+extern void *MemoryContextAllocZero(MemoryContext context, Size size);
+extern void *MemoryContextAllocZeroAligned(MemoryContext context, Size size);
#define palloc(sz) MemoryContextAlloc(CurrentMemoryContext, (sz))
-/* We assume palloc() is already int-aligned */
-#define palloc0(sz) \
- ( MemSetTest(0, (sz)) ? \
- MemoryContextAllocPalloc0(CurrentMemoryContext, (sz)) : \
- memset(palloc(sz), 0, (sz)))
+#define palloc0(sz) MemoryContextAllocZero(CurrentMemoryContext, (sz))
+
+/*
+ * The result of palloc() is always word-aligned, so we can skip testing
+ * alignment of the pointer when deciding which MemSet variant to use.
+ * Note that this variant does not offer any advantage, and should not be
+ * used, unless its "sz" argument is a compile-time constant; therefore, the
+ * issue that it evaluates the argument multiple times isn't a problem in
+ * practice.
+ */
+#define palloc0fast(sz) \
+ ( MemSetTest(0, sz) ? \
+ MemoryContextAllocZeroAligned(CurrentMemoryContext, sz) : \
+ MemoryContextAllocZero(CurrentMemoryContext, sz) )
extern void pfree(void *pointer);