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                              ANSI FAKE VM
                            design.mps.vman
                             incomplete doc
                             drj 1996-11-07

.intro: The ANSI fake VM is an implementation of the MPS VM interface (see 
design.mps.vm) using services provided by the ANSI C Library (standard.ansic.7) 
(malloc and free as it happens).

.align: The VM is aligned to VMAN_ALIGN (defined in impl.h.mpmconf) by adding 
VMAN_ALIGN to the requested size, mallocing a block that large, then rounding 
the pointer to the base of the block.  vm->base is the aligned pointer, 
vm->block is the pointer returned by malloc (used when during VMDestroy).

A. References

B. Document History

2002-06-07 RB Converted from MMInfo database design document.