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# Trash Stacks

## Name

Trash Stacks -- maintain a stack of unused allocated memory chunks.

## Synopsis

    #include <glib.h>

    struct      GTrashStack;
    void        g_trash_stack_push              (GTrashStack **stack_p,
                                                 gpointer data_p);
    gpointer    g_trash_stack_pop               (GTrashStack **stack_p);
    gpointer    g_trash_stack_peek              (GTrashStack **stack_p);
    guint       g_trash_stack_height            (GTrashStack **stack_p);

## Description

A GTrashStack is an efficient way to keep a stack of unused allocated memory chunks. Each memory chunk is required to be large enough to hold a gpointer. This allows the stack to be maintained without any space overhead, since the stack pointers can be stored inside the memory chunks.

There is no function to create a GTrashStack. A `NULL` GTrashStack* is a perfectly valid empty stack.

## Details

### struct GTrashStack

    struct GTrashStack
    {
      GTrashStack *next;
    };

Each piece of memory that is pushed onto the stack is cast to a GTrashStack*.

GTrashStack *`next` | pointer to the previous element of the stack, gets stored in the first `sizeof (gpointer)` bytes of the element.

### g_trash_stack_push ()

    void        g_trash_stack_push              (GTrashStack **stack_p,
                                                 gpointer data_p);

Pushes a piece of memory onto a GTrashStack.

`stack_p` : | a pointer to a GTrashStack.
`data_p` : | the piece of memory to push on the stack.

### g_trash_stack_pop ()

    gpointer    g_trash_stack_pop               (GTrashStack **stack_p);

Pops a piece of memory off a GTrashStack.

`stack_p` : | a pointer to a GTrashStack.
Returns : | the element at the top of the stack.

### g_trash_stack_peek ()

    gpointer    g_trash_stack_peek              (GTrashStack **stack_p);

Returns the element at the top of a GTrashStack.

`stack_p` : | a pointer to a GTrashStack.
Returns : | the element at the top of the stack.

### g_trash_stack_height ()

    guint       g_trash_stack_height            (GTrashStack **stack_p);

Returns the height of a GTrashStack.

`stack_p` : | a pointer to a GTrashStack.
Returns : | the height of the stack.

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