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diff --git a/devel/libmemmgr/DESCR b/devel/libmemmgr/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b3970b2f253 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/libmemmgr/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +MemMgr is a fairly trivial memory management library. There +is little it does that cannot be done using routines in the +C library. (In fact, allocation and disposal is implemented +using C library routines.) The purposes of MemMgr are two- +fold. + +(i) Minimize configuration burden on applications that + dynamically allocate memory. For instance, malloc() on + some systems returns a char pointer; on others it + returns a void pointer. The MemMgr library routines + encapsulate system-specific configuration differences + and exports a fixed interface which is system-indepen- + dent. Once you compile and install it, you just use it + without thinking about whether your UNIX is System V or + BSD inspired. + +(ii) Provide two parallel sets of allocation routines which + either return NULL (for applications which want to + check) or panic (for applications which simply want to + die) on allocation failures. Panicking is implemented + using the ETM library, which introduces a dependency on + the ETM distribution. So be it. I use ETM for all my + programs anyway |