new helper funcs for alloca/malloc with mmu/nommu

The rpc rcmd code has some ugly ifdef mazes to handle mmu/nommu differences
just to select alloca or malloc.  Unify those with some helper macros in a
new header, and then convert the rcmd code over to it.

This is all geared towards fixing the getdents helper functions which only
use alloca() atm.  Now that we have helper functions, convert the getdents
functions over too.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/bits/uClibc_alloc.h b/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/bits/uClibc_alloc.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a70d27b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/bits/uClibc_alloc.h
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/*
+ * Macros to transparently switch between the stack and heap for large
+ * allocations.  The former is useful on MMU systems as it results in
+ * smaller code, but the latter is required on NoMMU systems.  This is
+ * due to small stacks that cannot grow and so doing large allocs will
+ * cause a stack overflow.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+ * Licensed under the LGPL v2.1, see the file COPYING.LIB in this tarball.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _UCLIBC_ALLOC_H
+#define _UCLIBC_ALLOC_H
+
+#include <alloca.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#ifdef __ARCH_USE_MMU__
+# define stack_heap_alloc(x) alloca(x)
+# define stack_heap_free(x)  do { if (0) free(x); } while (0)
+#else
+# define stack_heap_alloc(x) malloc(x)
+# define stack_heap_free(x)  free(x)
+#endif
+
+#endif