Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!netxcom!sdutcher
From: sdutcher@netxcom.UUCP (Sylvia Dutcher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Storage Allocation/compaction
Keywords: malloc
Message-ID: <904@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 88 21:38:05 GMT
References: <2045@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <540@sbsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: sdutcher@netxcom.UUCP (Sylvia Dutcher)
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA
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In article <540@sbsvax.UUCP> greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
>In article <2045@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, lupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Robert Lupton) writes:

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>< Does anyone have a public domain storage allocator that could replace
>< malloc/realloc/free that also has a call to compactify the memory? I
>< don't wan't to write one, and I don't have a source licence to add a
>< call to the system version. From what I remember of the 4.2 malloc, using
>< realloc on freed space wouldn't help, as it doesn't compact the different
>< free lists.
>< 
>< 		Robert Lupton

	(reply from Michael Greim deleted)
	(sorry about this, I couldn't find the original posting) 

Try Dr. Dobb's Journal (of Software Tools) from June 1988.  It discusses
malloc and free problems and includes C code.  I haven't tried it, but it
might help.  The column is C Chest by Allen Holub.

Good luck.

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