Dynamic memory allocator

Introduction

This page describes the Dynamic Memory Allocator available for Applications.

Basically, this allocator behaves like any memory allocator in usual OS. The main difference is that it can be instantiated, thanks to its initialization function: mem_init()

This function takes as parameters

• a pointer to a buffer that will be used both as context for the Allocator and for dynamic chunks,
• and the size of this buffer

It returns a memory context (mem_ctx_t) that will be used by other functions

Then, chunks can be allocated with mem_alloc() and released with mem_free()

Both of these function take the memory context as first parameter.