A simple C library for easy memory alignment.

• Align-Memory
  • Table of Contents
  • Description
  • Installation
  • Roadmap
  • Contributing
  • Naming Convension
  • License
  • Project Status
  • Acknowledgment
  • Contact
  • Versioning
  • Changelog

This is a simple dynamic memory-alignment C library. It contains convenience functions for getting aligned-memory allocation size, aligned-memory location, and actual memory location from aligned-memory.

See the list of features and functions implemented till now in Project Status.

To get started with this project, download and install the following.

• Download and install git

  • If you use Windows, then go to this link and download and install the suitable version.

  • If you use any stable version of Debian/Ubuntu then run this command in your terminal

    sudo apt-get install git

  • If you use macOS then install homebrew if you don't already have it, then run this command in your terminal

    brew install git

• Run the command to clone this repository

  git clone https://github.com/KumarjitDas/Align-Memory.git

• Download and install a C compiler (clang or gcc)

  • If you use Windows 10 then download and install a suitable version of clang from this link. For gcc, use the suitable MinGW version from this link.

  • If you use any stable version of Debian/Ubuntu then run these commands in your terminal to download and install clang and gcc compilers

    sudo apt install clang

    sudo apt install gcc

  • In macOS, clang is the default C compiler. To download and install gcc, run this command in your terminal

    brew install gcc

• Download and install Ninja build system

  • If you use Windows 10 then download and install Ninja from here.

  • If you use any stable version of Debian/Ubuntu then run this command in your terminal

    sudo apt-get install ninja-build

  • If you use macOS then run this command in your terminal

    brew install ninja

• Download and install CMake build automation tool

  • If you use Windows 10 then download and install CMake from here.

  • If you use any stable version of Debian/Ubuntu then run this command in your terminal

    sudo apt-get -y install cmake

  • If you use macOS then run this command in your terminal

    brew install cmake

See the open issues for a list of proposed features/functionalities (and known issues).

The list of features and functions implemented till now is given in Project Status.

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

• Fork this Project

• Create your Feature Branch

  git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature

• Commit your Changes

  git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature'

• Push to the Branch

  git push origin feature/AmazingFeature

• Create a Pull Request

The naming convension used in this project will be listed soon.

This project is distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

List of functionalities/features implemented so far.

• kdi_get_size_for_memory_alignment
• kdi_align_memory
• kdi_get_actual_memory_from_aligned_memory

I appreciate these websites which helped me to make such good README file, and helped me to learn about project versioning and keeping CHANGELOG.

• Make a README
• Semantic Versioning
• Keep a Changelog

Twitter: @kumarjitdas1999

LinkedIn: Kumarjit Das | কুমারজিৎ দাস

E-mail: [email protected]

Project link: GitHub-KumarjitDas-Align-Memory

This project uses MAJOR, MINOR, and PATCH version numbers for versioning (vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH).

• MAJOR version number indicates new changes which may be incompatible with older versions.
• MINOR version number indicates addition of backwards-compatible features.
• PATCH version number indicates backwards-compatible bug fixes, or minor mistake fixes like spelling, character cases, punctuations, and indentation.

The Changelog file contains all the information about the changes made to this project till now.