umm_malloc | Memory Manager For Small Microprocessors | Performance Testing library

umm_malloc is a C library typically used in Testing, Performance Testing applications. umm_malloc has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

We have a general notation for a block that we'll use to describe the different scenarios that our memory allocation algorithm must deal with:. The fact that we have forward and backward links in the block descriptors means that malloc() and free() operations can be very fast. It's easy to either allocate the whole free item to a new block or to allocate part of the free item and leave the rest on the free list without traversing the list from front to back first. The entire block of memory used by the heap is assumed to be initialized to 0. The very first block in the heap is special - it't the head of the free block list. It is never assimilated with a free block (more on this later).