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| author | Quincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org> | 2004-05-08 02:38:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Quincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org> | 2004-05-08 02:38:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 7a7b0046b601772ab591368d633f3a9221222b2b (patch) | |
| tree | 3108c26fdce6450b946856b8b06c5616c205d15e /doc/html/H5.format.html | |
| parent | bf4cdba0ba38546826613fe0062487b1d6047b05 (diff) | |
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[svn-r8494] Purpose:
Further clarification about the free blocks in a local heap.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/html/H5.format.html b/doc/html/H5.format.html index 8ff8536..7fa8ca6 100644 --- a/doc/html/H5.format.html +++ b/doc/html/H5.format.html @@ -1620,10 +1620,13 @@ TABLE.list TD { border:none; } first free block (or the <A href="#UndefinedAddress">undefined address</A> if there is no free block). The free block contains "Size of Lengths" bytes that - are the offset of the next free chunk (or the + are the offset of the next free block (or the value '1' if this is the - last free chunk) followed by "Size of Lengths" bytes that store - the size of this free chunk. + last free block) followed by "Size of Lengths" bytes that store + the size of this free block. The size of the free block includes + the space used to store the offset of the next free block and + the of the current block, making the minimum size of a free block + 2 * "Size of Lengths". </P> </td> </tr> |