ALLOCATOR

DESCRIPTION

A general purpose allocator to reduce system calls during frequent memory allocation and deallocation.

INSTALLING

The only way to get the library is by building from source described in the next section.

BUILDING

What you need:

• CMAKE >= v3.19
• clang/gcc/msvc
• Clone of this repo

$ cd /path/to/repo/clone
$ cmake -B build
$ cmake --build build
# optional
$ cmake --build build --target install

EXAMPLES

    struct person {
        int age;
        double height; /* in meters */
        char name[20];
    };
    /* The internal structure of the allocator is of no use outside the allocator itself so the implicit cast to void * will suffice */
    void *alloc = allocatorcreate(sizeof(struct person));
    struct person *new = allocatormalloc(alloc);
    /** from string.h */
    strcpy(new->name, "jumbuna");
    new->age = 50;
    new->height = 2;
    allocatorfree(alloc, new);
    void *new2 = allocatormalloc(alloc);
    /** new2 == new */
    allocatordestroy(alloc);

CONTRIBUTIONS

All contributions are welcome. Send me a pull request anytime.