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+#ifndef _LIBALLOC_H
+#define _LIBALLOC_H
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+/** This is a boundary tag which is prepended to the
+ * page or section of a page which we have allocated. It is
+ * used to identify valid memory blocks that the
+ * application is trying to free.
+ */
+struct	boundary_tag
+{
+	unsigned int magic;			//< It's a kind of ...
+	unsigned int size; 			//< Requested size.
+	unsigned int real_size;		//< Actual size.
+	int index;					//< Location in the page table.
+
+	struct boundary_tag *split_left;	//< Linked-list info for broken pages.	
+	struct boundary_tag *split_right;	//< The same.
+	
+	struct boundary_tag *next;	//< Linked list info.
+	struct boundary_tag *prev;	//< Linked list info.
+};
+
+
+ 
+
+/** This function is supposed to lock the memory data structures. It
+ * could be as simple as disabling interrupts or acquiring a spinlock.
+ * It's up to you to decide. 
+ *
+ * \return 0 if the lock was acquired successfully. Anything else is
+ * failure.
+ */
+extern int liballoc_lock();
+
+/** This function unlocks what was previously locked by the liballoc_lock
+ * function.  If it disabled interrupts, it enables interrupts. If it
+ * had acquiried a spinlock, it releases the spinlock. etc.
+ *
+ * \return 0 if the lock was successfully released.
+ */
+extern int liballoc_unlock();
+
+/** This is the hook into the local system which allocates pages. It
+ * accepts an integer parameter which is the number of pages
+ * required.  The page size was set up in the liballoc_init function.
+ *
+ * \return NULL if the pages were not allocated.
+ * \return A pointer to the allocated memory.
+ */
+extern void* liballoc_alloc(int);
+
+/** This frees previously allocated memory. The void* parameter passed
+ * to the function is the exact same value returned from a previous
+ * liballoc_alloc call.
+ *
+ * The integer value is the number of pages to free.
+ *
+ * \return 0 if the memory was successfully freed.
+ */
+extern int liballoc_free(void*,int);
+
+       
+
+void     *malloc(size_t);				//< The standard function.
+void     *realloc(void *, size_t);		//< The standard function.
+void     *calloc(size_t, size_t);		//< The standard function.
+void      free(void *);					//< The standard function.
+
+
+#endif
+
+