inspircd/win/inspircd_memory_functions.cpp
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#include "inspircd_win32wrapper.h"
#include <exception>
#include <new>
#include <new.h>
/** On windows, all dll files and executables have their own private heap,
* whereas on POSIX systems, shared objects loaded into an executable share
* the executable's heap. This means that if we pass an arbitrary pointer to
* a windows DLL which is not allocated in that dll, without some form of
* marshalling, we get a page fault. To fix this, these overrided operators
* new and delete use the windows HeapAlloc and HeapFree functions to claim
* memory from the windows global heap. This makes windows 'act like' POSIX
* when it comes to memory usage between dlls and exes.
*/
void * ::operator new(size_t iSize)
{
void* ptr = HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, iSize); /* zero memory for unix compatibility */
/* This is the correct behaviour according to C++ standards for out of memory,
* not returning null -- Brain
*/
if (!ptr)
throw std::bad_alloc();
else
return ptr;
}
void ::operator delete(void * ptr)
{
HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, ptr);
}