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Add doxygen comments to MSP's oneway malloc
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/*
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* Copyright (C) 2014 Freie Universität Berlin
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*
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* This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser General
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* Public License. See the file LICENSE in the top level directory for more
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* details.
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*/
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/**
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* @addtogroup oneway_malloc
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* @{
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* @file malloc.h
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* @brief A malloc implementation for MSP-430 boards without free.
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*
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* @details The toolchain of MSP-430 does not contain malloc() and friends.
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* These functions provide the same interface as the stdlib functions,
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* but the option to free memory.
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*
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* @note You should prefer statically allocated memory whenever possible.
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*
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* @author Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
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* @author René Kijewski <rene.kijewski@fu-berlin.de>
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*/
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#ifndef __MALLOC_H
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#define __MALLOC_H
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#include <stdlib.h>
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/**
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* @brief Allocation a block of memory.
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* @param[in] size Size of the block to allocate in bytes.
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* @returns The new memory block. `NULL` if the "heap" is exhausted.
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*/
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void *malloc(size_t size);
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/**
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* @brief Allocated a new block of memory and move the existing content.
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* @details This function allocates a new block of memory and memcpy()s the content of the ond `ptr` there.
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*
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* We do not know the size of the old block, so illegal reads would be likely,
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* if it was not for the fact that the memory heap up.
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* @param[in] ptr Old memory block that was allocated with malloc(), calloc() or realloc().
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* @param[in] size Size of the new block to allocted in bytes.
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* @returns The new memory block. `NULL` if the "heap" is exhausted.
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*/
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void *realloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
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/**
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* @brief Allocate a memory block and set all its content to zeroes.
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* @details Please see malloc() for more information.
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* @note This implementation of calloc() does not catch integer overflows
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* @param[in] size One factor of the number of bytes to allocated.
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* @param[in] cnt The other factor of the number of bytes to allocated.
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* @returns The new memory block. `NULL` if the "heap" is exhausted.
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*/
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void *calloc(int size, size_t cnt);
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/**
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* @brief This is a no-op.
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* @details You read correctly: This function does noting.
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* @note Keep in mind that this function does not free the memory. It does nothing.
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* @param[in] ptr The ignored argument.
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*/
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void free(void *ptr);
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#endif /* __MALLOC_H */
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/**
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* @}
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*/
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