Chapter 4. Dynamic Memory Management
1. Fred Long is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. Gerhard Muenz is an instructor and researcher at Siemens AG, Corporate Technology. Martin Sebor is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems.
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
—William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1
C and C++ programs that operate on a variable number of data elements require the use of dynamic memory to manage this data. The vast majority of non-safety-critical applications use dynamic storage allocation.
Memory management has long been a source of elusive programming ...
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