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In line 209, the memory region from the global pool is cast back to a pointer (struct naObj**): https://gitorious.org/fg/simgear/blobs/next/simgear/nasal/gc.c#line209 | In line 209, the memory region from the global pool is cast back to a pointer (struct naObj**): https://gitorious.org/fg/simgear/blobs/next/simgear/nasal/gc.c#line209 | ||
the "nout" paramter is just there to update c->nfree[type] with the amount of free memory. | the "nout" paramter is just there to update c->nfree[type] with the amount of free memory. | ||
In other words, whenever new Nasal types are allocated, new memory from one of the 7 Nasal pools is requested. All of these allocation requests are channeled through naNew() and finally naGC_get(). naGC_get() is the de facto memory manager in Nasal, all memory management is triggered here - new memory block allocations for each pool, as well as garbage collection via the bottleneck() call. | |||
= bottleneck() = | = bottleneck() = | ||