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From: d DOT love AT dl DOT ac DOT uk (Dave Love)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: malloc/free ends up fragmenting dynamic memory?
Date: 07 Feb 1996 11:55:12 +0000
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
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In-reply-to: Charles Sandmann's message of Tue, 06 Feb 1996 22:52:21 CST
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>>>>> On Tue, 06 Feb 1996 22:52:21 CST, Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> said:

 Charles> And there are applications in-between.  I suggest if you do
 Charles> a wide range of programming tasks, you start collecting (or
 Charles> writing) mallocs ...

Initially consulting Paul Wilson's allocator survey referenced under
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/oops/ would doubtless be the best ploy.

Also there is a link to the Boehm et al conservative garbage collector
which has been ported to djgpp and can be used as a debugging malloc
if you must use malloc/free.