Chapter 5. Memory Management, Memory-Mapped Files, and DLLs
Most programs require some form of dynamic memory management. This need arises whenever there is a need to create data structures whose size or number is not known at program build time. Search trees, symbol tables, and linked lists are common examples of dynamic data structures where the program creates new instances at run time.
Windows provides flexible mechanisms for managing a program’s dynamic memory. Windows also provides memory-mapped files to associate a process’s address space directly with a file, allowing the OS to manage all data movement between the file and memory so that the programmer never needs to deal with ReadFile, WriteFile, SetFilePointer, or the other file I/O ...
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