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# The Memory Manager
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The manager will init itself if there are no blocks. The manager is modeled after a double LinkedList and is not a List.
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# Memory Layout
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The layout does not have a preset list or table but rather every item has meta data linking the next and previous item. This allows for a robust system.
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The data layout is as follows:
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Block|Block|Block etc.
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Block =
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Meta Data|Data
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Meta data =
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4 bytes (preveus block address start)|4 bytes (next block address start)|4 bytes (curent[this] block size)| 4 bytes (curent[this] block flag)
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```
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BlockFlags :
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```
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Allocated = 0,
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Free = 1,
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```
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the final layout looks like this:
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```
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4 bytes|4 bytes|4 bytes|4 bytes | (size of Block) bytes | 4 bytes|4 bytes|4 bytes | 4 bytes | (size of Block) bytes | etc
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Note:
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this means the smallest size an Block can occupy is 17 bytes, 16 bytes for the header and 1 for the smallest data type a byte.
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# Usage
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### Allocation
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Allocating a block happens by finding the first free block and split it (if necessary).
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## Deallocation
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Freeing a block is easy set its flag (in the metadata) to free.
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