#ifndef stringmem_h
#define stringmem_h
/*
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#pragma ident "%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI"
/*
* Applications that dynamically allocate lots of small strings
* run the risk of significantly fragmenting the heap. This module
* aims to reduce this risk by allocating large arrays of small fixed
* length strings, arranging them as a free-list and allowing
* callers to allocate from the list. Strings that are too long
* to be allocated from the free-list are allocated from the heap.
* Since typical implementations of malloc() eat up a minimum of
* 16 bytes per call to malloc() [because of alignment and space
* management constraints] it makes sense to set the free-list
* string size to 16 bytes. Note that unlike malloc() which typically
* keeps 8 bytes per allocation for its own use, our allocator will
* return all but one of the 16 bytes for use. One hidden byte of overhead
* is reserved for flagging whether the string was allocated directly
* from malloc or from the free-list.
*/
/*
* Set the length of each free-list string. The longest string that
* will be returned without calling malloc() will be one less than
* this number.
*/
/*
* Create a string free-list container and the first block of its free-list.
*/
/*
* Delete a string free-list.
*/
/*
* Allocate an array of 'length' chars.
*/
/*
* Free a string that was previously returned by _new_StringMemString().
*/
#endif