malloc.c File Reference

Dynamic memory allocation services. More...

Functions
int	rtheap_init (rtheap_t *heap, void *heapaddr, u_long heapsize, u_long pagesize, int suprt)
	Initialize a memory heap. More...
void *	rtheap_alloc (rtheap_t *heap, u_long size, int mode)
	Allocate a memory block from a memory heap. More...
int	rtheap_free (rtheap_t *heap, void *block)
	Release a memory block to a memory heap. More...

Detailed Description

Dynamic memory allocation services.

Copyright (C) 2007 Paolo Mantegazza mante.nosp@m.gazz.nosp@m.a@aer.nosp@m.o.po.nosp@m.limi..nosp@m.it. Specific following parts as copyrighted/licensed by their authors.

RTAI is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

RTAI is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with RTAI; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004 Philippe Gerum rpm@x.nosp@m.enom.nosp@m.ai.or.nosp@m.g.

RTAI is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

RTAI is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with RTAI; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Dynamic memory allocation services lifted and adapted from the Xenomai nucleus.

This file implements the RTAI dynamic memory allocator based on the algorithm described in "Design of a General Purpose Memory Allocator for the 4.3BSD Unix Kernel" by Marshall K. McKusick and Michael J. Karels.