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From: rkitts@netcom.COM (Rick Kitts)
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Subject: Defragmenting memory
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Date: 11 Mar 91 23:58:13 GMT
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I am working on a program which make heavy use of malloc() and free().
Apparently memory which is allocated and deallocated is never coalesced
which of course is leading me fragmented memory. A dump of the heap
using heapwalk() (from MicroSoft) indicates that I have many K of free
memory, but it is all in pieces which are too small to be useful.

Does anyone know of anyway to coalesce this memory? I am hoping to not
have to write my own memory manager, but it's starting to look like I
might.

BTW, I am using Microsloth C (painfully slow) version 6.0. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

---Rick

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