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Top Forums Programming fgets problems Post 302397207 by achenle on Sunday 21st of February 2010 10:49:56 AM
Old 02-21-2010
Let me get this straight: you have a custom memory management library, and your code using that library crashes?

OK.

You need all the help you can get. But there's not much out there.

Your only hope is to do something like download a demo copy of Purify and use it. And then pray that you don't have any bugs in your custom library.

And good luck.

You're going to need it.

There's a reason why nobody writes their own memory management libraries. First off, the multiple libraries available for free on your OS of choice are almost certainly fast enough. If they're not, you're most likely doing something wrong, like an over-reliance on malloc()/free() and/or new/delete. And if the OS libaries truly aren't fast enough (and if you're not multithreaded on a massively parallel application, they ARE fast enough!), there are third-party memory management libraries available.

Go price something like Smartheap. Then calculate all the hours spent on your custom memory library and how much those hours cost. Want to bet Smartheap is cheaper? If you even need it in the first place.

There are probably literally thousands of man-years invested by many absolutely brilliant computer scientists and programmers in all the memory-management libraries available in today's operating systems. And those products have been thoroughly tested - for literally decades.

You want a car analogy? Writing your own memory management library is like chiseling out a stone wheel for a sports car. The only reason to do it is for the sake of doing it - as a hobby or academic learning experience. Because there's no way you can duplicate the engineering history behind a "normal" wheel. Even if you do manage to chisel out a wheel that manages to outperform a "normal" wheel in a tiny operating range, you'll never really know how durable your wheel is because it's totally untested.
 

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