// Copyright 2022 The Chromium Authors // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #include #include #include #include // Custom implementation of new and delete, this prevents dragging // the libc++ implementation, which drags exception-related machine // code that is not needed here. This helps reduce the size of the // final binary considerably. // These symbols are not exported, thus this does not affect the libraries that // it will load, only the linker binary itself. void* operator new(size_t size) { void* ptr = ::malloc(size); if (ptr != nullptr) return ptr; // Don't assume it is possible to call any C library function like // snprintf() here, since it might allocate heap memory and crash at // runtime. Hence our fatal message does not contain the number of // bytes requested by the allocation. static const char kFatalMessage[] = "Out of memory!"; #ifdef __ANDROID__ __android_log_write(ANDROID_LOG_FATAL, "linker", kFatalMessage); #else ::write(STDERR_FILENO, kFatalMessage, sizeof(kFatalMessage) - 1); #endif _exit(1); #if defined(__GNUC__) __builtin_unreachable(); #endif // Adding a 'return nullptr' here will make the compiler error with a message // stating that 'operator new(size_t)' is not allowed to return nullptr. // // Indeed, an new expression like 'new T' shall never return nullptr, // according to the C++ specification, and an optimizing compiler will gladly // remove any null-checks after them (something the Fuschsia team had to // learn the hard way when writing their kernel in C++). What is meant here // is something like: // // Foo* foo = new Foo(10); // if (!foo) { <-- entire check and branch // ... Handle out-of-memory condition. <-- removed by an optimizing // } <-- compiler. // // Note that some C++ library implementations (e.g. recent libc++) recognize // when they are compiled with -fno-exceptions and provide a simpler version // of operator new that can return nullptr. However, it is very hard to // guarantee at build time that this code is linked against such a version // of the runtime. Moreoever, technically disabling exceptions is completely // out-of-spec regarding the C++ language, and what the compiler is allowed // to do in this case is mostly implementation-defined, so better be safe // than sorry here. // // C++ provides a non-throwing new expression that can return a nullptr // value, but it must be written as 'new (std::nothrow) T' instead of // 'new T', and thus nobody uses this. This ends up calling // 'operator new(size_t, const std::nothrow_t&)' which is not implemented // here. } void* operator new[](size_t size) { return operator new(size); } void operator delete(void* ptr) { // The compiler-generated code already checked that |ptr != nullptr| // so don't to it a second time. ::free(ptr); } void operator delete[](void* ptr) { ::free(ptr); }