There are a number of problems with dynamic memory allocation in a real time system. The standard library functions (malloc() and free()) are not normally reentrant, which would be problematic in a ...

When a process needs memory, some room is created by moving the upper bound of the heap forward, using the brk() or sbrk() system calls ... before the first memory allocation takes place—useful in ...

A topic that I find particularly interesting, which is raised by many embedded software developers whom I meet, is dynamic memory allocation – grabbing chunks ... leaks that impact performance and can ...

thereby defining the read vectors as The system uses a combination of content-based addressing and dynamic memory allocation to determine where to write in memory, and a combination of content ...

Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use. They may also perform the same operation for their applications, or they may include programming interface functions ...

On a system ... dynamic memory. When you select the Enable Dynamic Memory check box is selected, your VM starts with the amount of memory you specified above but then adjusts the actual memory ...

SLUBStick makes use of the heap vulnerabilities, which refer to the flaws affecting the “heap” region of a process’ memory that is responsible for dynamic memory allocation, in Linux kernels ...

But the general takeaway seems to be that Dynamic Caching allows the GPU to have more efficient memory allocation. Simple enough, right? Well, it’s still not exactly clear how memory allocation ...