Re: Virtual memory allocator recommendations?

Richard Harter wrote:
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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?

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