Changed the POOL_QALIGN flag to POOL_NO_QALIGN, reversing the setting

(making pools aligned by default).  Added the missing code to make the
documented behavior of pool_free() with a NULL addr work.  Updated the
pool_alloc.3 manpage.
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Wayne Davison committed 2008-07-19 09:20:56 -07:00
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@@ -95,25 +95,39 @@ for
.I quantum
will produce a quantum that should meet maximal alignment
on most platforms.
If
.B POOL_QALIGN
Unless
.B POOL_NO_QALIGN
is set in the
.IR flags ,
allocations will be aligned to addresses that are a
multiple of
.IR quantum .
A
.B NULL
may be specified for the
.I bomb
function pointer if it is not needed. (See the
.B pool_alloc()
function for how it is used.)
If
.B POOL_CLEAR
is set in the
.IR flags ,
all allocations from the pool will be initialized to zeros.
You may specify a
.B NULL
for the
.I bomb
function pointer if you don't wish to use it. (See the
.B pool_alloc()
function for how it is used.)
If either
.B POOL_PREPEND
or
.B POOL_INTERN
is specified in the
.IR flags ,
each extent's data structure will be allocated at the start of the
.IR size -length
buffer (rather than as a separate, non-pool allocation), with the
former extending the
.I size
to hold the structure, and the latter subtracting the structure's
length from the indicated
.IR size .
.P
.B pool_destroy()
destroys an allocation
@@ -131,8 +145,8 @@ is
.BR 0 ,
.I quantum
bytes will be allocated.
If the pool has been created with
.BR POOL_QALIGN ,
If the pool has been created without
.BR POOL_NO_QALIGN ,
every chunk of memory that is returned will be suitably aligned.
You can use this with the default
.I quantum
@@ -169,7 +183,7 @@ an extent), its memory will be completely freed back to the system.
If
.I addr
is
.BR 0 ,
.BR NULL ,
no memory will be freed, but subsequent allocations will come
from a new extent.
.P