Document 'union buflib_data'

Change-Id: Ia98fa8e7887338d6c0b7a5795a0ae5c7a13014ba
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Thomas Jarosch 2014-12-29 23:36:50 +01:00
parent 193c5df75d
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2 changed files with 11 additions and 8 deletions

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* the buffer. The buffer is treated as an array of union buflib_data. Blocks
* start with a length marker, which is included in their length. Free blocks
* are marked by negative length. Allocated blocks have a positiv length marker,
* and additional metadata forllowing that: It follows a pointer
* and additional metadata following that: It follows a pointer
* (union buflib_data*) to the corresponding handle table entry. so that it can
* be quickly found and updated during compaction. After that follows
* the pointer to the struct buflib_callbacks associated with this allocation
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* |L|H|C|cccc|L2|crc|XXXXXX|-L|YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY|L|H|C|cc|L2|crc|XXXXXXXXXXXXX|AAA|
*
* L - length marker (negative if block unallocated)
* H - handle table enry pointer
* H - handle table entry pointer
* C - pointer to struct buflib_callbacks
* c - variable sized string identifier
* L2 - second length marker for string identifier

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union buflib_data
{
intptr_t val;
char name[1]; /* actually a variable sized string */
struct buflib_callbacks* ops;
char* alloc;
union buflib_data *handle;
uint32_t crc;
intptr_t val; /* length of the block in n*sizeof(union buflib_data).
Includes buflib metadata overhead. A negative value
indicates block is unallocated */
char name[1]; /* name, actually a variable sized string */
struct buflib_callbacks* ops; /* callback functions for move and shrink. Can be NULL */
char* alloc; /* start of allocated memory area */
union buflib_data *handle; /* pointer to entry in the handle table.
Used during compaction for fast lookup */
uint32_t crc; /* checksum of this data to detect corruption */
};
struct buflib_context