Theory of OS - Memory Allocation

This lab has three purposes:

Boundary tag (prefix/suffix, implicit list) memory allocation is described in class. Some additional information and illustrations appear in:

I am providing you with a first-fit memory allocator named "myAllocator" written in the 'C' programming language. MyAllocator can be used as a replacement for malloc by linking it with "malloc.c" Its "resizeRegion()" method (which allows an allocated memory region to be increased) ineptly does not consider borrowing space from the successor block should it be free (this is documented in resizeRegion's comments). For the first part of this assignment, you should:

You should test your modified memory arena mangers for proper function, both as stand-alone allocators and as malloc() replacements. I encourage you to share these test programs with each other.

My allocator is in the following tarball: myMalloc.tar. The files can be extracted to a directory named "myMalloc" using the command "tar xf myMalloc.tar"