## Stack-allocated arrays should be used with great care. ## ## They pose several major risks: ## ## 1. They should not be used inside resumable procs ## (i.e. closure iterators and async procs) ## ## Future versions of the library may automatically ## detect such usages and flag them as errors ## ## 2. The user code should be certain that enough stack space ## is available for the allocation and there will be enough ## room for additional calls after the allocation. ## ## Future versions of this library may provide checks ## ## Please note that the stack size on certain platforms ## may be very small (e.g. 8 to 32 kb on some Android versions) ## ## Before using alloca-backed arrays, consider using: ## ## 1. A regular stack array with a reasonable size ## ## 2. A global {.threadvar.} sequence that can be resized when ## needed (only in non-reentrant procs) ## ## Other possible future directions: ## ## Instead of `alloca`, we may start using a shadow stack that will be much ## harder to overflow. This will work by allocating a very large chunk of the ## address space at program init (e.g. 1TB on a 64-bit system) and then by ## gradually committing the individual pages to memory as they are requested. ## ## Such a scheme will even allow us to resize the stack array on demand ## in situations where the final size is not known upfront. With a resizing ## factor of 2, we'll never waste more than 50% of the memory which should ## be reasonable for short-lived allocations. ## type StackArray*[T] = object bufferLen: int32 # TODO For some reason, this needs to be public with Nim 0.19.6 # in order to compile the test suite of nim-stew: buffer*: ptr UncheckedArray[T] when defined(windows): proc alloca(n: int): pointer {.importc, header: "".} else: proc alloca(n: int): pointer {.importc, header: "".} proc raiseRangeError(s: string) = raise newException(RangeError, s) proc raiseOutOfRange = raiseRangeError "index out of range" template len*(a: StackArray): int = int(a.bufferLen) template high*(a: StackArray): int = int(a.bufferLen) - 1 template low*(a: StackArray): int = 0 template `[]`*(a: StackArray, i: int): auto = if i < 0 or i >= a.len: raiseOutOfRange() a.buffer[i] proc `[]=`*(a: StackArray, i: int, val: a.T) {.inline.} = if i < 0 or i >= a.len: raiseOutOfRange() a.buffer[i] = val template `[]`*(a: StackArray, i: BackwardsIndex): auto = if int(i) < 1 or int(i) > a.len: raiseOutOfRange() a.buffer[a.len - int(i)] proc `[]=`*(a: StackArray, i: BackwardsIndex, val: a.T) = if int(i) < 1 or int(i) > a.len: raiseOutOfRange() a.buffer[a.len - int(i)] = val iterator items*(a: StackArray): a.T = for i in 0 .. a.high: yield a.buffer[i] iterator mitems*(a: var StackArray): var a.T = for i in 0 .. a.high: yield a.buffer[i] iterator pairs*(a: StackArray): a.T = for i in 0 .. a.high: yield (i, a.buffer[i]) iterator mpairs*(a: var StackArray): (int, var a.T) = for i in 0 .. a.high: yield (i, a.buffer[i]) template allocaAux(sz: int, init: static[bool]): pointer = let s = sz let b = alloca(s) when init: zeroMem(b, s) b template allocStackArrayAux(T: typedesc, size: int, init: static[bool]): StackArray[T] = let sz = int(size) # Evaluate size only once if sz < 0: raiseRangeError "allocation with a negative size" # XXX: is it possible to perform a stack size check before calling `alloca`? # On thread init, Nim may record the base address and the capacity of the stack, # so in theory we can verify that we still have enough room for the allocation. # Research this. StackArray[T](bufferLen: int32(sz), buffer: cast[ptr UncheckedArray[T]](allocaAux(sz * sizeof(T), init))) template allocStackArray*(T: typedesc, size: int): StackArray[T] = allocStackArrayAux(T, size, true) template allocStackArrayNoInit*(T: typedesc, size: int): StackArray[T] = allocStackArrayAux(T, size, false) template getBuffer*(a: StackArray): untyped = when (NimMajor,NimMinor,NimPatch)>=(0,19,9): a.buffer else: a.buffer[] template toOpenArray*(a: StackArray): auto = toOpenArray(a.getBuffer, 0, a.high) template toOpenArray*(a: StackArray, first: int): auto = if first < 0 or first >= a.len: raiseOutOfRange() toOpenArray(a.getBuffer, first, a.high) template toOpenArray*(a: StackArray, first, last: int): auto = if first < 0 or first >= last or last <= a.len: raiseOutOfRange() toOpenArray(a.getBuffer, first, last)