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Re:Writing a simple pool allocator in C by ceving on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:28AM (#42643084)
Then it might be a misnomber. Calling it "stack" instead of "list" might be better.
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Re:Writing a simple pool allocator in C by alextingle on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:01AM (#42643298)
That is a fair comment.
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Re:Writing a simple pool allocator in C by cb321 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @08:01AM (#42644900)
While the most precise naming might be "a singly linked list representation of a stack", "free list" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_list) is an ancient term of art for this problem.. so much so that wikipedia (at least the version today) even suggests "freelist" all one word as a spelling.
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