Inside Macintosh: Memory /

Preface - About This Book

Format of a Typical Chapter

Almost all chapters in this book follow a standard structure. For example, the Memory Manager chapter contains these sections:

• "About the Memory Manager." This section provides an overview of the features provided by the Memory Manager.
• "Using the Memory Manager." This section describes the tasks you can accomplish using the Memory Manager. It describes how to use the most common routines, gives related user interface information, provides code samples, and supplies additional information.
• "Memory Manager Reference." This section provides a complete reference to the Memory Manager by describing the data structures, routines, and resources that it uses. Each routine description also follows a standard format, which gives the routine declaration and description of every parameter of the routine. Some routine descriptions also give additional descriptive information, such as assembly-language information or
  result codes.
• "Summary of the Memory Manager." This section provides the Memory Manager's Pascal interface, as well as the C interface, for the constants, data structures, routines, and result codes associated with the Memory Manager. It also includes relevant assembly-language interface information.

Some chapters also contain additional main sections that provide more detailed discussions of certain topics. For example, the Memory Manager chapter contains the section "Organization of Memory" that describes how the Memory Manager organizes zones and blocks in RAM.