Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Commentary/Rts/Storage/BlockAlloc

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12/04/09 03:48:51 (4 years ago)
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  • Commentary/Rts/Storage/BlockAlloc

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    4747 * At the bottom, talking to the OS, is the megablock allocator ([[GhcFile(rts/sm/MBlock.c)]], [[GhcFile(includes/rts/storage/MBlock.h)]]). 
    4848   It is responsible for delivering megablocks, correctly aligned, to the upper layers.  It is also responsible for 
    49    implementing `HEAP_ALLOCED()`: the predicate that tests whether a pointer points to dynamically allocated memory 
     49   implementing [wiki:Commentary/HeapAlloced HEAP_ALLOCED()]: the predicate that tests whether a pointer points to dynamically allocated memory 
    5050   or not.  This is implemented as a simple bitmap lookup on a 32-bit machine, and something more complex on 
    5151   64-bit addressed machines.  See [[GhcFile(includes/rts/storage/MBlock.h)]] for details.