bam_set_mempolicy

@param b Alignment record @param policy Desired policy

Allows the way HTSlib reallocates and frees bam1_t data to be changed. @policy can be set to the bitwise-or of the following values:

\li \c BAM_USER_OWNS_STRUCT If this is set then bam_destroy1() will not try to free the bam1_t struct.

\li \c BAM_USER_OWNS_DATA If this is set, bam_destroy1() will not free the bam1_t::data pointer. Also, functions which need to expand bam1_t::data memory will change behaviour. Instead of calling realloc() on the pointer, they will allocate a new data buffer and copy any existing content in to it. The existing memory will \b not be freed. bam1_t::data will be set to point to the new memory and the BAM_USER_OWNS_DATA flag will be cleared.

BAM_USER_OWNS_STRUCT allows bam_destroy1() to be called on bam1_t structures that are members of an array.

BAM_USER_OWNS_DATA can be used by applications that want more control over where the variable-length parts of the bam record will be stored. By preventing calls to free() and realloc(), it allows bam1_t::data to hold pointers to memory that cannot be passed to those functions.

extern (C)
void
bam_set_mempolicy
(,
uint policy
)

Examples

Read a block of alignment records, storing the variable-length data in a single buffer and the records in an array. Stop when either the array or the buffer is full.

\code{.c} #define MAX_RECS 1000 #define REC_LENGTH 400 // Average length estimate, to get buffer size size_t bufsz = MAX_RECS * REC_LENGTH, nrecs, buff_used = 0; bam1_t *recs = calloc(MAX_RECS, sizeof(bam1_t)); uint8_t *buffer = malloc(bufsz); int res = 0, result = EXIT_FAILURE; uint32_t new_m_data;

if (!recs || !buffer) goto cleanup; for (nrecs = 0; nrecs < MAX_RECS; nrecs++) { bam_set_mempolicy(BAM_USER_OWNS_STRUCT|BAM_USER_OWNS_DATA);

// Set data pointer to unused part of buffer recsnrecs.data = &bufferbuff_used;

// Set m_data to size of unused part of buffer. On 64-bit platforms it // will be necessary to limit this to UINT32_MAX due to the size of // bam1_t::m_data (not done here as our buffer is only 400K). recsnrecs.m_data = bufsz - buff_used;

// Read the record res = sam_read1(file_handle, header, &recsnrecs); if (res <= 0) break; // EOF or error

// Check if the record data didn't fit - if not, stop reading if ((bam_get_mempolicy(&recsnrecs) & BAM_USER_OWNS_DATA) == 0) { nrecs++; // Include last record in count break; }

// Adjust m_data to the space actually used. If space is available, // round up to eight bytes so the next record aligns nicely. new_m_data = ((uint32_t) recsnrecs.l_data + 7) & (~7U); if (new_m_data < recsnrecs.m_data) recsnrecs.m_data = new_m_data;

buff_used += recsnrecs.m_data; } if (res < 0) goto cleanup; result = EXIT_SUCCESS;

// ... use data ...

cleanup: for (size_t i = 0; i < nrecs; i++) bam_destroy1(i); free(buffer); free(recs);

\endcode

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