EQEmulator Forums - Debugging malloc/free/realloc implimentation

I wrote this wrapper to allow for easier debugging of allocation/reallocation/freeing issues, as well as ease of tracking down memory leaks.

To use, simply build safe_mem.c into your application and include safe_mem.h from every file. An easy way to do this is to include safe_mem.h from a file that's included from all your source (e.g. internal type declarations). Everything else is done for you automagickly, and no further modifications must be made to your code.

If the precompiler constant SAFE_MEM is declared then the implimentation is enabled and calls to malloc() and realloc() will print an error if a null pointer is generated from either. If the precompiler constant SAFE_MEM_DEBUG is declared (in addition to SAFE_MEM) then every call to malloc, realloc, and free will print debug output in addition to the null pointer error checking.

Source is available for download at http://home.archshadow.com/~daeken/safe_mem.c and http://home.archshadow.com/~daeken/safe_mem.h, as well as below.

safe_mem.c:

Code:

void *srealloc(void *o, int s, int line_number, char *filename) {

  void *p;

#ifdef SAFE_MEM_DEBUG

  printf("SRealloc: Attempting to reallocate %i bytes to %p. (%s:%i)\n", size, o, filename, line_number);

#endif



  p = (void *) realloc(o, size);



  if(!p)

    printf("SRealloc: Could not reallocate %i bytes to %p! (%s:%i)\n", size, o, filename, line_number);

#ifdef SAFE_MEM_DEBUG

  else

    printf("SRealloc: Successfully reallocated %i bytes to pointer %p (Originally %p). (%s:%i)\n", size, p, o, filename, line_number);

#endif

  return p;

}



void *smalloc(int size, int line_number, char *filename) {

  void *p;

#ifdef SAFE_MEM_DEBUG

  printf("SMalloc: Attempting to allocate %i bytes. (%s:%i)\n", size, filename, line_number);

#endif



  p = (void *) malloc(size);



  if(!p)

    printf("SMalloc: Could not allocate %i bytes! (%s:%i)\n", size, filename, line_number);

#ifdef SAFE_MEM_DEBUG

  else

    printf("SMalloc: Successfully allocated %i bytes to pointer %p. (%s:%i)\n", size, p, filename, line_number);

#endif

  return p;

}



void sfree(void *p, int line_number, char *filename) {

#ifdef SAFE_MEM_DEBUG

  printf("SFree: Freeing pointer %p. (%s:%i)\n", p, filename, line_number);

#endif



  free(p);



#ifdef SAFE_MEM_DEBUG

  printf("SFree: Successfully freed pointer %p. (%s:%i)\n", p, filename, line_number);

#endif

}

safe_mem.h:

Code:

#ifndef __EQCLIENT_SAFE_MEM_H_

#define __EQCLIENT_SAFE_MEM_H_



#ifdef SAFE_MEM



void *srealloc(void *p, int s, int line_number, char *filename);

void *smalloc(int size, int line_number, char *filename);

void sfree(void *p, int line_number, char *filename);



#define realloc(p, bytes) (smalloc((p), (bytes), __LINE__, __FILE__))

#define malloc(bytes) (smalloc((bytes), __LINE__, __FILE__))

#define free(p) (sfree((p), __LINE__, __FILE__))



#endif



#endif

Enjoy.

Happy Hacking,
Lord Daeken M. BlackBlade
(Cody Brocious)