but not available in one contiguous chunk that can satisfy the allocation request. This situation is called memory fragmentation. p1 = malloc(4*K); This results in a failure – NULL is returned into ...

Because the allocation method determines whether memory fragmentation becomes a problem, the memory allocator plays the central role in ensuring the availability of free resources. Memory allocation ...

A technical paper titled “EDDY: A Multi-Core BDD Package with Dynamic Memory Management and Reduced Fragmentation” was published by researchers at University of Bremen. “In recent years, hardware ...

For embedded - generally real time - applications, ignoring the issue is not an option. Dynamic memory allocation tends to be non-deterministic; the time taken to allocate memory may not be ...