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added utility methods for writing a Java string to a native memory buffer as a C string
author Doug Simon <doug.simon@oracle.com>
date Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:42:45 +0100
parents 2912b72d840a
children e85575f63b60
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package com.oracle.graal.graph;

import java.lang.reflect.*;

import sun.misc.*;

public class UnsafeAccess {

    /**
     * An instance of {@link Unsafe} for use within Graal.
     */
    public static final Unsafe unsafe = getUnsafe();

    private static Unsafe getUnsafe() {
        try {
            // this will fail if Graal is not part of the boot class path
            return Unsafe.getUnsafe();
        } catch (SecurityException e) {
            // nothing to do
        }
        try {
            Field theUnsafeInstance = Unsafe.class.getDeclaredField("theUnsafe");
            theUnsafeInstance.setAccessible(true);
            return (Unsafe) theUnsafeInstance.get(Unsafe.class);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // currently we rely on being able to use Unsafe...
            throw new RuntimeException("exception while trying to get Unsafe.theUnsafe via reflection:", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Copies the contents of a {@link String} to a native memory buffer as a {@code '\0'}
     * terminated C string. The native memory buffer is allocated via
     * {@link Unsafe#allocateMemory(long)}. The caller is responsible for releasing the buffer when
     * it is no longer needed via {@link Unsafe#freeMemory(long)}.
     * 
     * @return the native memory pointer of the C string created from {@code s}
     */
    public static long createCString(String s) {
        return writeCString(s, unsafe.allocateMemory(s.length() + 1));
    }

    /**
     * Writes the contents of a {@link String} to a native memory buffer as a {@code '\0'}
     * terminated C string. The caller is responsible for ensuring the buffer is at least
     * {@code s.length() + 1} bytes long. The caller is also responsible for releasing the buffer
     * when it is no longer.
     * 
     * @return the value of {@code buf}
     */
    public static long writeCString(String s, long buf) {
        int size = s.length();
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            unsafe.putByte(buf + i, (byte) s.charAt(i));
        }
        unsafe.putByte(buf + size, (byte) '\0');
        return buf;
    }
}