Welcome to the Pool Arena project! This project is a C language implementation for learning purpose and usage for my RISCV processor. The goal of the project is to create a memory allocator that manages a pool of memory and allows fast allocation and deallocation of fixed-size blocks.
A pool arena is a memory management technique that allows a program to efficiently allocate and deallocate small chunks of memory from a large pre-allocated "pool" of memory.
In a pool arena, memory is divided into fixed-size blocks, and each block can be allocated and deallocated independently. When a block is freed, it is not immediately released back to the operating system, but rather added to a list of available blocks that can be reused for future allocations. This reduces the overhead of memory allocation and deallocation, since it avoids the need to request new memory from the operating system each time a new block is needed.
This pool arena API is compliant with regular malloc/realloc/calloc/free calls. It could be used in a regular C program, or as a malloc replacement in embedded system, compatible with 32 or 64 bits platform.
The project consists of the following files:
src/pool_arena.c: Implementation of the pool arena functionssrc/pool_arena.h: Header file containing the pool arena API and data structurestest/test_pool_arena.c: A test program that exercises the pool arena functions with Unity
The project has no external dependencies.
To build the project, run the following command:
makeTo run the test program, use the following command:
./test/testsuiteDistributed under MIT license