Memory Allocation

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Allocating Storage For Program Data

This section covers how ordinary programs manage storage for their data, including the famous malloc function and some fancier facilities special the GNU C library and GNU Compiler.

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• Memory Allocation and C :: How to get different kinds of allocation in C.
• Unconstrained Allocation :: The malloc facility allows fully general dynamic allocation.
• Allocation Debugging :: Finding memory leaks and not freed memory.
• Obstacks :: Obstacks are less general than malloc but more efficient and convenient.
• Variable Size Automatic :: Allocation of variable-sized blocks of automatic storage that are freed when the calling function returns.