Chapter 7

Storage Management

Chapter Outline

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Allocation Techniques

7.3 Memory Representation

7.4 Boundary Tag System

7.5 Storage Allocations

7.6 Storage Release

7.7 Buddy System

7.8 Binary Buddy System

7.9 Compaction

7.10 Garbage Collections

7.1 INTRODUCTION

The fundamental purpose of any program is to manipulate data and its storage in the computer memory. Storage management consists of techniques that are used to manage the heap. Two memory management techniques are used for this purpose. They are:

  1. Static storage management
  2. Dynamic storage management.

Static Storage Management It is necessary to load the program into the memory before execution of a program. Before execution of a program, it is essential that the ...

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