Zix

Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures.

Components

• Allocation

  • ZixAllocator: A customizable allocator.
    • ZixBumpAllocator: A simple realtime-safe "bump-pointer" allocator.

• Algorithms

  • zix/digest.h: Digest functions suitable for hashing arbitrary data.

• Data Structures

  • ZixBTree: A page-allocated B-tree.
  • ZixHash: An open-addressing hash table.
  • ZixRing: A lock-free realtime-safe ring buffer.
  • ZixTree: A binary search tree.

• Threading

  • ZixSem: A portable semaphore wrapper.
  • ZixThread: A portable thread wrapper.

• File System

  • zix/filesystem.h: Functions for working with filesystems.
  • zix/path.h: Functions for working with filesystem paths lexically.

• Environment

  • zix/environment.h: Function to expand shell-style variables in a string.

Platforms

Zix is continually tested on:

• Debian 11 (x86, x64, arm32, and arm64)
• Fedora 36 (x64)
• FreeBSD 14 (x64)
• MacOS 14 (M2)
• Node 12 (as wasm via emscripten 2.0.12)
• Windows 10 (x64)

Dependencies

None, except the C standard library, and some POSIX and platform-specific APIs where necessary.

Documentation

• Installation Instructions
• API reference (single page)
• API reference (paginated)
• Test Coverage

-- David Robillard d@drobilla.net