return a pointer to the start of the block data

auto GetLastErrorStdStr() -> std::string { DWORD error = GetLastError(); if (error) { LPVOID lpMsgBuf; DWORD bufLen = FormatMessage( FORMAT_MESSA

returns a pointer to the start of the shared memory, which will contain the data structures first

return the total number of blocks the shared memory

bool decReadersOrDel(u32 blkIdx, u32 version, bool del=false) const // BI is Block Index increment the readers by one and retu

BlockLists::sizeBytes ends up being sizeof(BlkLst)*blockCount + 2 u64 variables

interpret the u64 bits directly as a signed 64 bit integer instead

special value for CncrHsh

first 8 bytes should be the total size of the buffer in bytes

an extra 128 bytes so that Head can be placed (why 128 bytes? so that the head can be aligned on its own cache line to avoid false sharing, since it i

void doFree(u32 i) const { store_vi(i, empty_vi().asInt); }