/* Return a pointer to a zero-size object in memory. Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* ISO C 99 does not allow memcmp(), memchr() etc. to be invoked with a NULL argument. Therefore this file produces a non-NULL pointer which cannot be dereferenced, if possible. */ #include /* Test whether mmap() and mprotect() are available. We don't use HAVE_MMAP, because AC_FUNC_MMAP would not define it on HP-UX. HAVE_MPROTECT is not enough, because mingw does not have mmap() but has an mprotect() function in libgcc.a. */ #if HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H && HAVE_MPROTECT # include # include # include # include /* Define MAP_FILE when it isn't otherwise. */ # ifndef MAP_FILE # define MAP_FILE 0 # endif #endif /* Return a pointer to a zero-size object in memory (that is, actually, a pointer to a page boundary where the previous page is readable and writable and the next page is neither readable not writable), if possible. Return NULL otherwise. */ static void * zerosize_ptr (void) { /* Use mmap and mprotect when they exist. Don't test HAVE_MMAP, because it is not defined on HP-UX 11 (since it does not support MAP_FIXED). */ #if HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H && HAVE_MPROTECT # if HAVE_MAP_ANONYMOUS const int flags = MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE; const int fd = -1; # else /* !HAVE_MAP_ANONYMOUS */ const int flags = MAP_FILE | MAP_PRIVATE; int fd = open ("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY, 0666); if (fd >= 0) # endif { int pagesize = getpagesize (); char *two_pages = (char *) mmap (NULL, 2 * pagesize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, flags, fd, 0); if (two_pages != (char *)(-1) && mprotect (two_pages + pagesize, pagesize, PROT_NONE) == 0) return two_pages + pagesize; } #endif return NULL; }