mruby configuration macros

The configuration file

You can do the build configuration in the build configuration file. The default configuration file is build_config/default.rb.

You can specify your own configuration file by the MRUBY_CONFIG environment variable (you can use CONFIG for shorthand for MRUBY_CONFIG). If the path doesn't exist, build_config/${MRUBY_CONFIG}.rb is used.

How to use these macros

Just add the configuration value to the MRuby::Build#defines attribute. This is the same for MRuby::CrossBuild.

# build_config.rb

MRuby::Build.new do |conf|
  ...
  conf.defines << 'MRB_GC_FIXED_ARENA'
  conf.defines << 'MRB_NO_METHOD_CACHE'
  ...
end

NOTE

• Use common definitions (conf.defines) instead of per-compiler definitions (e.g., conf.cc.defines) unless there is a special reason not to.
• It is now deprecated to edit the include/mruby/mrbconf.h file or give it directly as a compiler flag, as was the case before.

stdio setting

MRB_NO_STDIO

• When defined <stdio.h> functions won't be used.
• Some features will be disabled when this is enabled:
  • mrb_irep load/dump from/to file.
  • Compiling mruby script from a file.
  • Printing features in src/print.c.

Debug macros

MRB_USE_DEBUG_HOOK

• When defined code fetch hook and debug OP hook will be enabled.
• When using any of the hook set function pointer code_fetch_hook and/or debug_op_hook of mrb_state.
• Fetch hook will be called before any OP.
• Debug OP hook will be called when dispatching OP_DEBUG.

MRB_DEBUG

• When defined mrb_assert* macro will be defined with macros from <assert.h>.
• Could be enabled via enable_debug method of MRuby::Build.

Stack configuration

MRB_STACK_EXTEND_DOUBLING

• If defined doubles the stack size when extending it.
• Otherwise extends stack with MRB_STACK_GROWTH.

MRB_STACK_GROWTH

• Default value is 128.
• Used in stack extending.
• Ignored when MRB_STACK_EXTEND_DOUBLING is defined.

MRB_STACK_MAX

• Default value is 0x40000 - MRB_STACK_GROWTH.
• Raises RuntimeError when stack size exceeds this value.

Primitive type configuration

MRB_USE_FLOAT32

• When defined single-precision floating-point type(C type float) is used as mrb_float.
• Otherwise, double-precision floating-point type(C type double) is used as mrb_float.

MRB_NO_FLOAT

• When defined removes floating-point numbers from mruby.
• It makes mruby easier to handle in "Micro-controller without FPU" and "Kernel Space".

MRB_INT32

• When defined, or MRB_INT64 are not defined on 32-bit CPU mode, mrb_int will be defined as int32_t.
• Conflicts with MRB_INT64.

MRB_INT64

• When defined, or MRB_INT32 are not defined on 64-bit CPU mode, mrb_int will be defined as int64_t.
• Conflicts with MRB_INT32.

Garbage collector configuration

MRB_GC_STRESS

• When defined full GC is emitted per each RBasic allocation.
• Mainly used in memory manager debugging.
• If defined at the same time as MRB_DEBUG, full GC is emitted also per each heap allocation (mrb_malloc() or etc.). This configuration slows down mruby execution by a factor of 2 to 3 or even more.

MRB_GC_TURN_OFF_GENERATIONAL

• When defined turns generational GC by default.

MRB_GC_FIXED_ARENA

• When defined used fixed size GC arena.
• Raises RuntimeError when this is defined and GC arena size exceeds MRB_GC_ARENA_SIZE.
• Useful tracking unnecessary mruby object allocation.

MRB_GC_ARENA_SIZE

• Default value is 100.
• Ignored when MRB_GC_FIXED_ARENA isn't defined.
• Defines fixed GC arena size.

MRB_HEAP_PAGE_SIZE

• Defines value is 1024.
• Specifies number of RBasic per each heap page.
• To calculate the number of bytes per heap page, it is "(size of management data per heap page) + (size per object) * MRB_HEAP_PAGE_SIZE". In mruby 3.1.0, the "size of management data per heap page" is 6 words, also "size per object" is 6 words. For a 32-bit CPU, (6 * 4) + (6 * 4) * MRB_HEAP_PAGE_SIZE gives the bytes of size per heap page. Conversely, for example, to keep the size per heap page to 4 Ki bytes, calculate (4096 - (6 * 4)) / (6 * 4) to specify MRB_HEAP_PAGE_SIZE=169.

Memory pool configuration

POOL_ALIGNMENT

• Default value is 4.
• If you're allocating data types that requires alignment more than default value define the largest value of required alignment.

POOL_PAGE_SIZE

• Default value is 16000.
• Specifies page size of pool page.
• Smaller the value is increases memory overhead.

State atexit configuration

MRB_FIXED_STATE_ATEXIT_STACK

• If defined enables fixed size mrb_state atexit stack.
• Raises RuntimeError when mrb_state_atexit call count to same mrb_state exceeds MRB_FIXED_STATE_ATEXIT_STACK_SIZE's value.

MRB_FIXED_STATE_ATEXIT_STACK_SIZE

• Default value is 5.
• If MRB_FIXED_STATE_ATEXIT_STACK isn't defined this macro is ignored.

mrb_value configuration

MRB_ENDIAN_BIG

• If defined compiles mruby for big endian machines.
• Used in MRB_NAN_BOXING.
• Some mrbgem use this mrbconf.

MRB_NAN_BOXING

• If defined represent mrb_value in boxed double.
• Conflicts with MRB_USE_FLOAT32 and MRB_NO_FLOAT.

MRB_WORD_BOXING

• If defined represent mrb_value as a word.
• If defined Float will be a mruby object with RBasic.

Reduce heap memory configuration

MRB_USE_ETEXT_RO_DATA_P

• Use etext and edata section addresses defined by the linker to detect read-only data.
• Those addresses are widely available, but not portable, nor standardized.
• This macro is defined by default on User-mode Linux.

MRB_NO_DEFAULT_RO_DATA_P

• Define this macro when the default mrb_ro_data_p() does not work for any reason.

MRB_USE_CUSTOM_RO_DATA_P

• Please try if MRB_USE_LINK_TIME_RO_DATA_P is not available.
• The mrb_ro_data_p() function is implemented by the user in an arbitrary file.
• The prototype declaration is mrb_bool mrb_ro_data_p(const char *ptr).
• Return TRUE if ptr is in the read-only section, otherwise return FALSE.

Other configuration

MRB_MALLOC_TRIM

• call malloc_trim(0) for each mrb_full_gc() call

MRB_UTF8_STRING

• Adds UTF-8 encoding support to character-oriented String instance methods.
• If it isn't defined, they only support the US-ASCII encoding.

MRB_STR_LENGTH_MAX

• The maximum length of strings (default 1MB)
• set this value to zero to skip the check

MRB_ARY_LENGTH_MAX

• The maximum length of strings (default 1MB)
• set this value to zero to skip the check

MRB_FUNCALL_ARGC_MAX

• Default value is 16.
• Specifies 4th argument(argc) max value of mrb_funcall.
• Raises ArgumentError when the argc argument is bigger then this value mrb_funcall.

KHASH_DEFAULT_SIZE

• Default value is 32.
• Specifies default size of khash table bucket.
• Used in kh_init_ ## name function.

MRB_NO_METHOD_CACHE

• Disable method cache to save memory.

MRB_METHOD_CACHE_SIZE

• Default value is 256.
• Ignored if MRB_NO_METHOD_CACHE is defined.
• Need to be the power of 2.

MRB_USE_METHOD_T_STRUCT

• Use C struct to represent mrb_method_t
• No MRB_USE_METHOD_T_STRUCT requires highest 2 bits of function pointers to be zero
• Define this macro on machines that use higher bits of pointers

MRB_USE_ALL_SYMBOLS

• Make it available Symbol.all_symbols in mrbgems/mruby-symbol-ext
• Increase heap memory usage.

MRB_USE_VM_SWITCH_DISPATCH

• Turn on switch dispatch in VM loop