slackbuilds_ponce/libraries/tllist
Damian Perticone 308e807bcb
libraries/tllist: Added (typed linked list c header file)
Signed-off-by: Dave Woodfall <dave@slackbuilds.org>

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
2022-04-24 01:47:10 +07:00
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README
slack-desc
tllist.info
tllist.SlackBuild

Most C implementations of linked list are untyped. That is, their data
carriers are typically void *. This is error prone since your compiler
will not be able to help you correct your mistakes.

tllist addresses this by using pre-processor macros to implement
dynamic types, where the data carrier is typed to whatever you want;
both primitive data types are supported as well as aggregated ones
such as structs, enums and unions.

Being a double-linked list, most operations are constant in time
(including pushing and popping both to/from front and back).

The memory overhead is fairly small; each item carries, besides its
data, a prev and next pointer (i.e. a constant 16 byte overhead per item
on 64-bit architectures).

The list itself has two head and tail pointers, plus a length variable
(typically 8 bytes on 64-bit architectures) to make list length lookup
constant in time.

Thus, assuming 64-bit pointers (and a 64-bit size_t type), the total
overhead is 3*8 + n*2*8 bytes.

tllist is a needed dependency for fcft,foot,fuzzel,fnott,wbg