Oct 12, 2025 · 4 min read · https://github.com/eumgil0812/os/blob/main/malloc_free.c 🧭 1. Why “Best Fit”? 👉 Best Fit searches the entire free list and chooses the smallest block that fits the requested size, leading to: Better space utilization 🧠 Less external fragmentatio...
Join discussionAug 13, 2025 · 12 min read · In this blog, we will be learning how to make a malloc function and free function. Ofcourse it's not gonna be how a really malloc works in c but you will get an idea. our malloc will be able to allocate dynamic size of memory also it can deallocate t...
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Jul 16, 2025 · 9 min read · A C Programmer's Deep Dive into Dynamic Memory For many C programmers, the journey from writing simple, self-contained functions to building complex, data-driven applications hits a wall. That wall is often memory management. Variables on the stack a...
Join discussionMar 11, 2024 · 3 min read · C is a very old language, with its existence dating back to 1970s. It has been the most influential language in the world with pretty much everything around us. Our Operating systems, routers and many other devices run using C. Despite being that inf...
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Jan 30, 2024 · 5 min read · NoIntroducing the C programming language The C language was developed in 1972 at At&T Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie. It combines features of the B and BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) programming languages but is also mixed with the Pascal la...
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Jan 27, 2024 · 5 min read · Hi System Devs, Hope you are doing well! In this third and final instalment of article, we cover the implementation of the C library functions free(), calloc(), and realloc(). Please Read the following two Parts before proceeding further: PART 1 : In...
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Jan 20, 2024 · 6 min read · Greetings, Systems devs! In this article on Building our own Memory Allocator, we dive into malloc library function. Please first read PART1 to understand sbrk() system call provided by Linux. malloc(size) function allocates the size bytes of memory ...
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Jan 2, 2024 · 5 min read · A Address Sanitizer, ASan, é uma ferramenta que permite identificar erros de memória em tempo de execução. Em outras palavras, quando executamos nossos programa e ocorre algum erro de memória: a ASan acusa a ocorrência do problema, bem como interromp...
Join discussionDec 27, 2023 · 15 min read · Here are 10 C programming exercises that involve dynamic memory allocation: Dynamic Array: Create a program that dynamically allocates memory for an array of integers. Allow the user to input the size of the array and elements, and then print the ar...
Join discussionDec 28, 2023 · 6 min read · Question: Implement a dynamic array data structure in C that supports the following operations: Initialization with an initial capacity. Accessing an element at a given index. Setting the value at a given index. Inserting a new element at a speci...
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