On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Sammy wrote:
>It's not that simple. I allocate 10 buffers at a time. I can't free any
>of those 10 individually. I can only free the whole block (unless someone
How about a saving the block number in an integer in the structure and then
running through the list to see if all ten in a block are free?
>knows some malloc/free tricks). Since I keep a linked list of available
>buffers and used buffers and move buffers between the two very often,
>there's not much chance that given 10 free buffers they will all be in the
>same block of memory.
True.
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