Hallocy

An advanced allocator library for C.

Introduction

Hallocy is an advanced C allocator library. This library implements the standard malloc, calloc, realloc, free, memset, memcopy, memmove and memcmp functions. The aim of this library is to be a better version of the standard C allocator by improving performance. Hallocy supports both Windows and Linux also keeping multithreading in mind.

Features

The hallocy library offers the following features:

Allocating and freeing memory
Zeroing memory on allocation
Reallocating memory
Copying and moving memory
Setting memory
Comparing memory

Installation

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed on your system:

CMake (minimum version 3.10)
A compatible C compiler (e.g., GCC or MSVC)

Build Steps

Clone the repository:

git clone https://repo.strawhats.nl/Mineplay/Hallocy.git

Navigate to the directory:
```
cd Hallocy
```
Create build directory and navigate to it:
```
mkdir Build && cd Build
```
Run CMake to configure project:
```
cmake ..
```
Build the project:
```
cmake --build . --config Release
```
To build in debug use:
```
cmake --build . 
```
This will both generate the library and test files.

Using the library

The library file can be found in the ./Build/Release folder as Hallocy.lib for windows and in ./Build folder as libHallocy.a for linux. To use the library file you will need to copy the Hallocy folder containing the header files and follow the setup process for a library in the build system you are using.

For more info about how to use the library see the documentation folder named Docs.

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