libBLOC

Barry's Little Objects in C Library

Barry's Little Objects in C Library (libBLOC) is a library for C programs, aiming to improve internal resource and memory management. It accomplishes this by providing structures and functions to instantiate, reference count, and safely release "objects". Programs that take advantage of this library can implement their own object types. The library also provides a set of objects (e.g. List) that may be useful to the program.

Objects

Programs can define a different types of objects by declaring an ObjectType structure. Objects of this type can then be created and operated on using the standard functions the library provides for all objects. Objects can implement their own functions too.

Lists

List objects are, as the name suggests, a way to organise a collection of objects. Lists can be created to only hold objects of a certain type, or can work on all types of object. A list is a linear set of objects, and can be traversed in order.

Trees

A Tree object works similarly to a list, except that it is implemented as a binary search tree. If the objects being stored must be sorted or frequently searched then trees will provide a more efficient solution.

Iterators

Iterator objects exist to make traversing list and tree objects easy.

Miscellaneous

For more information, please visit the project page. Documentation can be found in the Orion documentation. For any further queries, please contact barry@barryserver.net.