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scylladb/core/vla.hh
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/*
* This file is open source software, licensed to you under the terms
* of the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). See the NOTICE file
* distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright
* ownership. You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
*
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
* software distributed under the License is distributed on an
* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
* KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
* specific language governing permissions and limitations
* under the License.
*/
/*
* Copyright (C) 2014 Cloudius Systems, Ltd.
*/
#ifndef VLA_HH_
#define VLA_HH_
#include <memory>
#include <new>
#include <assert.h>
#include <type_traits>
// Some C APIs have a structure with a variable length array at the end.
// This is a helper function to help allocate it.
//
// for a structure
//
// struct xx { int a; float b[0]; };
//
// use
//
// make_struct_with_vla(&xx::b, number_of_bs);
//
// to allocate it.
//
template <class S, typename E>
inline
std::unique_ptr<S>
make_struct_with_vla(E S::*last, size_t nr) {
auto fake = reinterpret_cast<S*>(0);
size_t offset = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(&(fake->*last));
size_t element_size = sizeof((fake->*last)[0]);
assert(offset == sizeof(S));
auto p = ::operator new(offset + element_size * nr);
return std::unique_ptr<S>(new (p) S());
}
#endif /* VLA_HH_ */