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Re: Space pointers

Hi Walden,

> OK, I've used pointer-based languages for many years and I've never wanted
> to allocate more memory in the middle of an allocation. Maybe that just
> because I couldn't so my brain doesn't work that way, but why would you
want
> to do such a thing? Are you planning on having the allocation work like a
> linked list where you're inserting a new element in the middle of the
list?

In a nutshell.. yup. The core utilities such as swMemExpand() and
swMemShrink() are used to support more complex structures. There's nothing
special about what I'm doing; these are just convenience wrappers that
change the buffer size, then shift the data accordingly.


Regards,

John Taylor

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