harpoon.Backend.Runtime1
Class AllocationStrategy

java.lang.Object
  harpoon.Backend.Runtime1.AllocationStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

AppelAllocationStrategy, MallocAllocationStrategy, NullAllocationStrategy

public abstract class AllocationStrategy
extends Object
implements Serializable

An AllocationStrategy is a particular implementation of a memory allocation routine.

Version:

$Id: AllocationStrategy.java,v 1.3 2003/04/19 01:03:55 salcianu Exp $

Author:

Duncan Bryce <duncan@lcs.mit.edu>, C. Scott Ananian <cananian@alumni.princeton.edu>

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

AllocationStrategy()

Method Summary

abstract Exp

memAlloc(TreeFactory tf, HCodeElement source, DerivationGenerator dg, AllocationInformation.AllocationProperties ap, Exp length) Return a Tree.Exp created with the given TreeFactory that returns a pointer to a piece of memory length bytes long.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AllocationStrategy

public AllocationStrategy()

Method Detail

memAlloc

public abstract Exp memAlloc(TreeFactory tf,
                             HCodeElement source,
                             DerivationGenerator dg,
                             AllocationInformation.AllocationProperties ap,
                             Exp length)

Return a Tree.Exp created with the given TreeFactory that returns a pointer to a piece of memory length bytes long.