(INI) Initiated MemMan

(MOD) Extended abtilities of Status

(ADD) Introduced CMake building system for Compound
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#PROJECT "Compound - Status" DOCUMENTATION WRITTEN BY WILLIAM PASCAL
#
#THIS PROJECT IS COMPILED UNDER "C99 ISO/IEC 9899:1999" WITH
#"gcc (GCC) 13.2.1 20230801"
#PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VERSION TO THE COMPILER MAY CHANGE DURING PROJECT
#DEVELOPMENT, IT IS UNCERTAIN, SO FAR, THAT EVERY COMPILER OLDER/NEWER THAT
#THIS VERSION COULD COMPILE PROPERLY. MS WINDOWS SUPPORT IS UNDER
#CONSIDERATION WHILE DEVELOPMENT FOR GNU/LINUX HAS HIGHER PRIORITY.
LICENSE NOTICE:
This file is part of Compound.
Compound is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
Compound is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with Compound. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
BRIEF:
"STATUS" REPRESENT THE ACTUAL PROCESS STATUS OF THE FUNCTION APPLIED TO USE
THIS STRUCTURE AS THE RETURNING TYPE.
DECLARATION:
STRUCTURE - STATUS
IT COMES WITH FOLLOWING MEMBERS:
i. value: int
"VALUE" INDICATES THE VALUE THAT FUNCTION RETURNS. MORE USUALLY, THIS
VALUE IS IGNORED WHEN "CHARACTERISTIC" IS NOT "STATUS_UNKNOWN" AS AN
ALTERNATIVE FOR LEGACY FUNCTIONS WHICH DO NOT USE "int" FOR THEIR
RETURNING.
ii. description: char*
"DESCRIPTION" TELLS THE SITUATION, USUALLY NOT NORMAL, WHERE THE FUNCTION
HAD RUN INTO CERTAIN PROBLEMS DURING THE PROCESS. IT CAN BE USEFUL WHEN
DEBUGGING AND SUCH.
*PLEASE NOTE, AN EMPTY DESCRIPTION ALONG WITH A NULL DESCRIPTION IS
REGARDED AS "MEANINGLESS ONE" WHICH DOES NOT DOING ANYTHING EFFECTIVE FOR
ANYONE. DESCRIPTIONS CAN BE VALIDATED WITH FUNCTION `status_isvalid`.
iii. characteristic: int
"CHARACTERISTIC" INDICATED THE BASIC NATURE OF CURRENT "STATUS".
*GO SEE enum StatusCharacteristics FOR AVAILABLE "CHARACTERISTICS".
iv. prev: struct _Status*
"PREV" STANDS FOR "PREVIOUS STATUS". JUST AS THE NAME TELLS, THIS MEMBER
POINTS AT THE PREVIOUS STRUCTURE OF STATUS WHERE THIS STATUS IS BASED ON.
THIS MEMBER IS USUALLY USED FOR PRINTING CALLING STACKS.
IN SOME CASES, THIS MEMBER COULD POINT AT IT SELF, MEANING IT COULD MAKE
A RECURSIVE SITUATION WHERE IT REQUIRE EXTRA EXAMINATIONS BEFORE GOING TO
THE ADDRESS IT POINTS AT. THESE PROBLEMS CAN BE AVOIDED WITH FUNCTION
`status_recursive` CALLED AHEAD.
*GO SEE status_dump FOR DETAILS ABOUT DUMPING CALLING STACKS.
*GO SEE status_recursive FOR DETERRING RECURSIVE "PREV".
SYNONYM:
Status funcname1(void *param);
Status *funcname2(void);
VARIANT SYNONYM:
int funcname1(Status stat);
void funcname2(Status *stats);
typedef struct _Status {
int value; /* Traditional returning data "int". Only used when the function
called and received legacy functions that uses "int" as the
returning type that wish to have place to hold the value.
Otherwise, the function would just return the structure Status. */
char *description;
int characteristic;
struct _Status *prev;
} Status;