Sneaky valgrind trick to detect stack memory issues.

After something is popped from a stack, we overwrite the memory
with uninitialised data (if JQ_DEBUG is on). This means that
valgrind reports use-after-pop as an uninitialised memory error.

forkable_stack.h

@@ -100,13 +100,22 @@ static void* forkable_stack_peek_next(struct forkable_stack* s, void* top) {
 // Returns 1 if the next forkable_stack_pop will permanently remove an
 // object from the stack (i.e. the top object was not saved with a fork)
 static int forkable_stack_pop_will_free(struct forkable_stack* s) {
-  return s->pos < s->savedlimit ? 1 : 0;
+  return s->pos < s->savedlimit;
 }
 
 static void forkable_stack_pop(struct forkable_stack* s) {
   forkable_stack_check(s);
   struct forkable_stack_header* elem = forkable_stack_peek(s);
-  s->pos += elem->next_delta;
+  int reclaim_upto = s->pos + elem->next_delta < s->savedlimit ? 
+    s->pos + elem->next_delta : s->savedlimit;
+  assert(reclaim_upto <= s->length);
+  int reclaimed = reclaim_upto > s->pos ? reclaim_upto - s->pos : 0;
+  assert(0 <= reclaimed && s->pos + reclaimed <= s->length);
+  // s->pos <= i < reclaim_upto means that position i is to be freed
+  assert((reclaimed > 0) == forkable_stack_pop_will_free(s));
+  int new_pos = s->pos + elem->next_delta;
+  jv_mem_invalidate(elem, reclaimed);
+  s->pos = new_pos;
 }
 
 

jv_alloc.c

@@ -26,3 +26,12 @@ void* jv_mem_realloc(void* p, size_t sz) {
   }
   return p;
 }
+
+#if JQ_DEBUG
+volatile char jv_mem_uninitialised;
+__attribute__((constructor)) void jv_mem_uninit_setup(){
+  char* p = malloc(1);
+  jv_mem_uninitialised = *p;
+  free(p);
+}
+#endif

jv_alloc.h

@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@
 
 #include <stddef.h>
 
+#if JQ_DEBUG
+extern volatile char jv_mem_uninitialised;
+#endif
+
+static void jv_mem_invalidate(void* mem, size_t n) {
+#if JQ_DEBUG
+  char* m = mem;
+  while (n--) *m++ ^= jv_mem_uninitialised ^ jv_mem_uninitialised;
+#endif
+}
+
 void* jv_mem_alloc(size_t);
 void jv_mem_free(void*);
 __attribute__((warn_unused_result)) void* jv_mem_realloc(void*, size_t);