From:	"Ben Davis" <ben AT vjpoole DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.games.development.programming.misc
Subject:	Compacting the Memory
Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:31:07 +0100
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I am writing a program in DJGPP C, which uses the memory VERY dynamically:
there are loads of malloc()s and free()s. They occur in a strange order, and
some are quite large. If two blocks are allocated, and then the first one is
freed, and then a third, larger block is allocated before the second one is
freed, some memory is wasted (I fear).
What I would like to know is, does DJGPP automatically compact the memory by
moving blocks down to fill all the gaps, or do I have to do it manually? How
can I do this?

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