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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Microsoft C 5.1 memory fragmentation problem
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Date: 1 Jan 90 21:18:44 GMT
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Reply-To: ddb@network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
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I'm sure I remember seeing references to this problem in various
places:  when I do a LOT of malloc and free using the library routines
from Microsoft, I get my heap mongo fragmented, because they don't
merge adjacent free space.  (This is obviously a bug, but never mind
that now....)  I vaguely remember that Microsoft has published some
code to do this merging, that one can put into a program and call when
needed.  Can anybody give me a pointer to code to merge adjacent free
space in the Microsoft heap, or code for a whole new malloc that will
work in the Microsoft C environment?  Anon ftp location would be fine,
or mail it to me maybe if it's small.

Thanks!

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