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tests: add allocator with limited number of bytes · 90cc0771
In several circumstances, we get bug reports about things that happen in situations where the environment is quite limited with regards to available memory. While it's expected that functionality will fail if memory allocations fail, the assumption is that we should do so in a controlled way. Most importantly, we do not want to crash hard due to e.g. accessing NULL pointers. Naturally, it is quite hard to debug such situations. But since our addition of pluggable allocators, we are able to implement allocators that fail in deterministic ways, e.g. after a certain amount of bytes has been allocated. This commit does exactly that. To be able to properly keep track of the amount of bytes currently allocated, allocated pointers contain tracking information. This tracking information is currently limited to the number of bytes allocated, so that we can correctly replenish them on calling `free` on the pointer. In the future, it would be feasible to extend the tracked information even further, e.g. by adding information about file and line where the allocation has been performed. As this introduced some overhead to allocations though, only information essential to limited allocations is currently tracked.
Patrick Steinhardt committed