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Thomas Martitz
f7cff8bd69 Buflib: Stop caching the first unallocated block. It has little benefit but is complicated to keep up-to-date.
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2011-09-09 15:35:14 +00:00
Thomas Martitz
5296af838c Buflib: Clarification about invalid handles
* Enhance allocation function comments to better state the return value and what an invalid value is
* Change clients to check for "< 0" instead of "<= 0" or "== 0"
* Return -1 or -2 depending on the exact failure in buflib_alloc_ex.

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2011-09-07 23:16:29 +00:00
Thomas Martitz
d0b72e2590 GSoC/Buflib: Add buflib memory alocator to the core.
The buflib memory allocator is handle based and can free and
compact, move or resize memory on demand. This allows to effeciently
allocate memory dynamically without an MMU, by avoiding fragmentation
through memory compaction.

This patch adds the buflib library to the core, along with
convinience wrappers to omit the context parameter. Compaction is
not yet enabled, but will be in a later patch. Therefore, this acts as a
replacement for buffer_alloc/buffer_get_buffer() with the benifit of a debug
menu.

See buflib.h for some API documentation.

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2011-08-30 14:01:33 +00:00