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liballoc - a small memory allocator
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This is liballoc, a memory allocator for hobby operating systems, originally
written by Durand. According to the original page for liballoc it was released
into the public domain, but the copy I have contains the 3 clause BSD license.
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liballoc.c/h are the original release of liballoc taken from the spoon tarball
while liballoc_1_1.c/h are later versions found by detective work using Google.
Using liballoc
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There are 4 functions which you need to implement on your system:
int liballoc_lock();
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on linux.
NOTE: There are two ways to build the library.
NOTE: There are two ways to build the library:
1) Compile the library with a new system file. For example, I've
left linux.c with the default distribution. It gets compiled
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your app.
QUICK START
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Quick Start
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You can simply type: "make linux" to build the linux shared
library. Thereafter, you can link it directly into your applications
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quite cool.
Originally by:
Durand Miller
clutter@djm.co.za

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