Re: Virtual memory allocator recommendations?

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:35:17 +0100, David Given <dg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Richard Harter wrote:
[...]
You might be interested in the getspace allocator that I wrote.
The source code and documentation are at
http://home.tiac.net/~cri_a/source_code/getspace/

Thanks, but being built on top of malloc it doesn't actually allocate
its own chunks, so it doesn't seem to be suitable for what I want, alas.

Any suggestions for other places to look? comp.lang.programming?

As others have said, you need to look at groups specific to your
platform. There is no way to portably write a storage allocator
in standard C only - to get chunks of memory you have to have
access to the OS memory management facilities.


Richard Harter, cri@xxxxxxxx
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