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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual
SILC Crypto Library
    Introduction to SILC RNG
    SILC RNG Interface
    SILC Cipher API
    SILC PKCS API
    SILC Public Key API
    SILC PKCS #1 API
    SILC Hash Interface
    SILC HMAC Interface
SILC Core Library
    SILC Authentication Interface
    SILC Message Interface
    SILC Channel Interface
    SILC Command Interface
    SILC Notify Interface
    SILC Status Types
    SILC Modes
    SILC ID Interface
    SILC Argument Interface
    SILC Attributes Interface
    Packet Engine Interface
    SILC Public Key Payload Interface
SILC Key Exchange Library
    SILC SKE Interface
    SILC Connection Authentication Interface
SILC VCard Library
    SILC VCard Interface
SILC Math Library
    SILC MP Interface
    SILC Math Interface
SILC Client Library
    Using SILC Client Library Tutorial
    Arguments for command_reply Client Operation
    SilcStatus Error Arguments in command_reply Client Operation
    Arguments for notify Client Operation
    Unicode and UTF-8 Strings in Client Library
    Client Library Interface Reference
    Client Entry Interface Reference
SILC ASN.1 Library
    SILC ASN.1 Interface
    SILC BER interface
SILC HTTP Library
    SILC HTTP Server Interface
    SILC HTTP PHP Translator
SILC Utility Library
    Basic Types and Definitions
    Data Buffer Interface
    Data Buffer Format Interface
    Hash Table Interface
    Memory Allocation Interface
    Data Stack (memory pool) Interface
    Finite State Machine Interface
    Thread Interface
    Mutual Exclusion Lock Interface
    Condition Variable Interface
    Atomic Operations Interface
    Network (TCP and UDP) Interface
    Scheduler Interface
    Asynchronous Operation Interface
    Abstract Stream Interface
    Socket Stream Interface
    File Descriptor Stream Interface
    File Utility Functions
    String Utility Interface
    Snprintf Interface
    UTF-8 String Interface
    Stringprep Interface
    Utility Functions
    List Interface
    Dynamic List Interface
    MIME Interface
    Time Utility Functions
    Logging Interface
    Config File Interface
SILC Key Repository Library
    SILC SKR Interface
SILC Application Utility Library
    SILC Application Utilities
    SILC ID Cache Interface
SILC SFTP Library
    SILC SFTP Interface
    SFTP Filesystems Interface

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silcstack.html
SilcStack Interface
Header: silcstack.h

DESCRIPTION

 Implementation of data stack which can be used to allocate memory from
 the stack.  Basicly SilcStack is a pre-allocated memory pool system
 which allows fast memory allocation for routines and applications that
 frequently allocate small amounts of memory.  Other advantage of this
 system is that there are no memory leaks, as long as the stack is
 freed eventually.  Since the stack is usually allocated only once this
 is not an issue.

 SilcStack can be used to allocate both aligned and unaligned memory so
 it is suitable for allocating structures and is optimal for allocating
 strings and data buffers.  SilcStack also supports stack pushing and
 popping allowing to push the stack, allocate memory and then pop it
 to free the allocated memory.  The freeing does not actually do any
 real memory freeing so it is optimized for performance.

 A basic set of utility functions are provided for application that wish
 to use the SilcStack as their primary memory allocation source.  The
 following functions support SilcStack:

 silc_smalloc, silc_smalloc_ua, silc_scalloc, silc_srealloc, silc_smemdup,
 silc_sstrdup, silc_buffer_salloc, silc_buffer_salloc_size,
 silc_buffer_srealloc, silc_buffer_srealloc_size, silc_buffer_scopy,
 silc_buffer_sclone, silc_buffer_sformat, silc_buffer_sformat_vp,
 silc_buffer_sstrformat, silc_buffer_senlarge, silc_mp_sinit

 The data stack is not thread-safe.  If the same stack context must be
 used in multithreaded environment concurrency control must be employed.
 Each thread should allocate their own SilcStack.

  • SilcStack
  • SilcStackFrame
  • silc_stack_alloc
  • silc_stack_free
  • silc_stack_push
  • silc_stack_pop








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