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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual
SILC VCard Library
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Introduction to SILC RNG
SILC RNG Interface
SILC Cipher API
SILC PKCS API
SILC Public Key API
SILC PKCS #1 API
SILC Hash Interface
SILC HMAC Interface
SILC Client Library
Using SILC Client Library Tutorial
Arguments for command_reply Client Operation
SilcStatus Error Arguments in command_reply Client Operation
Arguments for notify Client Operation
Unicode and UTF-8 Strings in Client Library
Client Library Interface Reference
Client Entry Interface Reference
SILC Math Library
SILC MP Interface
SILC Math Interface
SILC Application Utility Library
SILC Application Utilities
SILC ID Cache Interface
SILC Key Repository Library
SILC SKR Interface
SILC ASN.1 Library
SILC ASN.1 Interface
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SILC Core Library
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SILC Status Types
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SILC Attributes Interface
Packet Engine Interface
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SILC Utility Library
Basic Types and Definitions
Data Buffer Interface
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Hash Table Interface
Memory Allocation Interface
Data Stack (memory pool) Interface
Finite State Machine Interface
Thread Interface
Mutual Exclusion Lock Interface
Condition Variable Interface
Atomic Operations Interface
Network (TCP and UDP) Interface
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Abstract Stream Interface
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File Descriptor Stream Interface
File Utility Functions
String Utility Interface
Snprintf Interface
UTF-8 String Interface
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List Interface
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MIME Interface
Time Utility Functions
Logging Interface
Config File Interface
SILC HTTP Library
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SilcStack Interface
Header: silcstack.h
DESCRIPTION

     Implementation of data stack which can be used to allocate memory from
     the stack.  Basicly SilcStack is a pre-allocated memory pool system
     which allows fast memory allocation for routines and applications that
     frequently allocate small amounts of memory.  Other advantage of this
     system is that there are no memory leaks, as long as the stack is
     freed eventually.  Since the stack is usually allocated only once this
     is not an issue.

     SilcStack can be used to allocate both aligned and unaligned memory so
     it is suitable for allocating structures and is optimal for allocating
     strings and data buffers.  SilcStack also supports stack pushing and
     popping allowing to push the stack, allocate memory and then pop it
     to free the allocated memory.  The freeing does not actually do any
     real memory freeing so it is optimized for performance.

     A basic set of utility functions are provided for application that wish
     to use the SilcStack as their primary memory allocation source.  The
     following functions support SilcStack:

     silc_smalloc, silc_smalloc_ua, silc_scalloc, silc_srealloc, silc_smemdup,
     silc_sstrdup, silc_buffer_salloc, silc_buffer_salloc_size,
     silc_buffer_srealloc, silc_buffer_srealloc_size, silc_buffer_scopy,
     silc_buffer_sclone, silc_buffer_sformat, silc_buffer_sformat_vp,
     silc_buffer_sstrformat, silc_buffer_senlarge, silc_mp_sinit

     The data stack is not thread-safe.  If the same stack context must be
     used in multithreaded environment concurrency control must be employed.
     Each thread should allocate their own SilcStack.

- SilcStack
- SilcStackFrame
- silc_stack_alloc
- silc_stack_free
- silc_stack_push
- silc_stack_pop

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