fr.umlv.corosol.memory
Interface JMemoryAllocator

public interface JMemoryAllocator

A memory allocator. This interfaces provides methods to allocate memory areas used by the Corosol JVM. These memory areas are JMemory objects.

Author:

Christophe Deleray

See Also:

JMemory

Method Summary

JMemory

allocate(int size) Creates a memory area of size bytes.

Method Detail

allocate

JMemory allocate(int size)

Creates a memory area of size bytes.

Parameters:

size - the size of the memory areas to be allocated

Returns:

a memory area of size bytes

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - thrown if the size of the requested memory is bigger than the memory remaining or is negative

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError - thrown if no memory is available