Chapter 7: Memory Allocation

Many system programs need to be able to allocate extra memory for dynamic data structures (e.g., linked lists and binary trees), whose size depends on information that is available only at run time. In this chapter, we describe the functions that are used to allocate memory on the heap or the stack.

7 Memory Allocation
7.1 Allocating Memory on the Heap
        7.1.1 Adjusting the Program Break: brk() and sbrk()
        7.1.2 Allocating Memory on the Heap: malloc() and free()
        7.1.3 Implementation of malloc() and free()
        7.1.4 Other Methods of Allocating Memory on the Heap
7.2 Allocating Memory on the Stack: alloca()
7.3 Summary
7.4 Exercises