gecko-dev/content/media/SharedBuffer.h

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#ifndef MOZILLA_SHAREDBUFFER_H_
#define MOZILLA_SHAREDBUFFER_H_

#include "mozilla/mozalloc.h"
#include "nsCOMPtr.h"
#include "nsAutoPtr.h"

namespace mozilla {

/**
 * Base class for objects with a thread-safe refcount and a virtual
 * destructor.
 */
class ThreadSharedObject {
public:
  NS_INLINE_DECL_THREADSAFE_REFCOUNTING(ThreadSharedObject)
  virtual ~ThreadSharedObject() {}
};

/**
 * Heap-allocated chunk of arbitrary data with threadsafe refcounting.
 * Typically you would allocate one of these, fill it in, and then treat it as
 * immutable while it's shared.
 * This only guarantees 4-byte alignment of the data. For alignment we
 * simply assume that the refcount is at least 4-byte aligned and its size
 * is divisible by 4.
 */
class SharedBuffer : public ThreadSharedObject {
public:
  void* Data() { return this + 1; }

  static already_AddRefed<SharedBuffer> Create(size_t aSize)
  {
    void* m = moz_xmalloc(sizeof(SharedBuffer) + aSize);
    nsRefPtr<SharedBuffer> p = new (m) SharedBuffer();
    NS_ASSERTION((reinterpret_cast<char*>(p.get() + 1) - reinterpret_cast<char*>(p.get())) % 4 == 0,
                 "SharedBuffers should be at least 4-byte aligned");
    return p.forget();
  }

  size_t SizeOfIncludingThis(MallocSizeOf aMallocSizeOf) const {
    return aMallocSizeOf(this);
  }

private:
  SharedBuffer() {}
};

}

#endif /* MOZILLA_SHAREDBUFFER_H_ */