In glibc malloc.c or dlmalloc It said "repositioning tricks"As in blew, and use this trick in bin_at.
bins is a array,the space is allocated when av(struct malloc_state) is allocated.doesn't it? the sizeof(bin[i]) is less then sizeof(struct malloc_chunk*)?
Who can describe this trick for me? I can't understand the bin_at macro.why they get the bins address use this method?how it works?
Very thanks,and sorry for my poor English.
/*
To simplify use in double-linked lists, each bin header acts
as a malloc_chunk. This avoids special-casing for headers.
But to conserve space and improve locality, we allocate
only the fd/bk pointers of bins, and then use repositioning tricks
to treat these as the fields of a malloc_chunk*.
*/
typedef struct malloc_chunk* mbinptr;
/* addressing -- note that bin_at(0) does not exist */
#define bin_at(m, i) \
(mbinptr) (((char *) &((m)->bins[((i) - 1) * 2])) \
- offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd))
The malloc_chunk struct like this:
struct malloc_chunk {
INTERNAL_SIZE_T prev_size; /* Size of previous chunk (if free). */
INTERNAL_SIZE_T size; /* Size in bytes, including overhead. */
struct malloc_chunk* fd; /* double links -- used only if free. */
struct malloc_chunk* bk;
/* Only used for large blocks: pointer to next larger size. */
struct malloc_chunk* fd_nextsize; /* double links -- used only if free. */
struct malloc_chunk* bk_nextsize;
};
And the bin type like this:
typedef struct malloc_chunk* mbinptr;
struct malloc_state {
/* Serialize access. */
mutex_t mutex;
/* Flags (formerly in max_fast). */
int flags;
#if THREAD_STATS
/* Statistics for locking. Only used if THREAD_STATS is defined. */
long stat_lock_direct, stat_lock_loop, stat_lock_wait;
#endif
/* Fastbins */
mfastbinptr fastbinsY[NFASTBINS];
/* Base of the topmost chunk -- not otherwise kept in a bin */
mchunkptr top;
/* The remainder from the most recent split of a small request */
mchunkptr last_remainder;
/* Normal bins packed as described above */
mchunkptr bins[NBINS * 2 - 2];
/* Bitmap of bins */
unsigned int binmap[BINMAPSIZE];
/* Linked list */
struct malloc_state *next;
#ifdef PER_THREAD
/* Linked list for free arenas. */
struct malloc_state *next_free;
#endif
/* Memory allocated from the system in this arena. */
INTERNAL_SIZE_T system_mem;
INTERNAL_SIZE_T max_system_mem;
};
