Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers

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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_17

17. Tracking Memory Allocations

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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Tulsa, OK, USA

 

Nearly every programming language has some features to track memory allocations. Some, like the C programming language, are primitive. In Chapter 14, we learned how to implement basic procedures for allocating and deallocating memory for a program and managing the amount of memory we requested from the kernel.

However, even with having functions to allocate and deallocate memory, there are still a lot of issues that programmers have when tracking memory. Trying to figure out when a piece of memory can