1 // Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
2 // Copyright (c) 2009-2013 The Bitcoin Core developers
3 // Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
4 // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
6 #ifndef BITCOIN_SUPPORT_ALLOCATORS_ZEROAFTERFREE_H
7 #define BITCOIN_SUPPORT_ALLOCATORS_ZEROAFTERFREE_H
9 #include "support/cleanse.h"
15 struct zero_after_free_allocator : public std::allocator<T> {
16 // MSVC8 default copy constructor is broken
17 typedef std::allocator<T> base;
18 typedef typename base::size_type size_type;
19 typedef typename base::difference_type difference_type;
20 typedef typename base::pointer pointer;
21 typedef typename base::const_pointer const_pointer;
22 typedef typename base::reference reference;
23 typedef typename base::const_reference const_reference;
24 typedef typename base::value_type value_type;
25 zero_after_free_allocator() throw() {}
26 zero_after_free_allocator(const zero_after_free_allocator& a) throw() : base(a) {}
28 zero_after_free_allocator(const zero_after_free_allocator<U>& a) throw() : base(a)
31 ~zero_after_free_allocator() throw() {}
32 template <typename _Other>
34 typedef zero_after_free_allocator<_Other> other;
37 void deallocate(T* p, std::size_t n)
40 memory_cleanse(p, sizeof(T) * n);
41 std::allocator<T>::deallocate(p, n);
45 // Byte-vector that clears its contents before deletion.
46 typedef std::vector<char, zero_after_free_allocator<char> > CSerializeData;
48 #endif // BITCOIN_SUPPORT_ALLOCATORS_ZEROAFTERFREE_H