Chunks provide a linked list of dynamically allocated shared memory segments, with the most recently allocated chunk at the tail. More...

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struct MemChunk *	next_chunk
	Pointer to next allocated chunk.

size_t	next
	Offset, within this chunk, of 1st free byte.

size_t	limit
	Offset, of 1st byte beyond chunk.

void *	memory [0]
	The rest of the chunk, from which memory is allocated.

Detailed Description

Chunks provide a linked list of dynamically allocated shared memory segments, with the most recently allocated chunk at the tail.

Shmalloc allocates space from this list of chunks, creating new chunks as needed up to MAX_ALLOWED_SHMEM.

Definition at line 116 of file veil_datatypes.h.

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