Memory management: allocation

In this article, we discuss memory allocation, the process of handing out memory blocks to programs to facilitate their execution.

Table of contents.Introduction.Data allocation with explicit deallocation.Basic Memory Allocation.Naive Malloc.Optimizations for basic memory allocation.Applications of memory allocation in a compiler.Remark.Summary.References.Introduction

Memory management is responsible for handing out and reclaiming chunks of the data segment such that all chunks fit i...