Add a option to allow null "main"

[xtexChooser]

buddy_alloc/buddy_alloc.h

Line 443 in 0b679cd

if (main == NULL) {

buddy_alloc/buddy_alloc.h

Line 489 in 0b679cd

if (! main) {

For example, I am writing an OS and manage the whole linear memory with this allocator.
However, this check is also useful to general usages.

Thanks. This is a pretty-good library.

[spaskalev]

Thanks for the feedback! These checks are added to assist users but for managing memory that starts at 0 I can see how this can be an issue.

[xtexChooser]

ops sorry I found that managing the first page is impossible because 0 will be regarded as allocation failure. Sorry

[spaskalev]

ops sorry I found that managing the first page is impossible because 0 will be regarded as allocation failure. Sorry

Thinking about it, there's no reason not to be able to do this. The allocation logic itself is handled by the tree component and the allocator just maps tree positions to addresses and vice-versa. It is doable to redo the allocator component with a different API (e.g. struct alloc_result { void * addr; size_t result }) and still use the zero page.