Hi, From where can we get the Knowledge about Memory allocators i am not concerned about new and delete operators i want to know when we use new how memory gets allocated to a variable and how it keeps track of amount and address of memory allocated please tell me some web links ,books ,references Regards Rahul
The great thing about Linux is that it's Open Source, so you can look at the code yourself, directly. Here's one I found with Google: http://www.oldlinux.org/lxr/http/source/lib/malloc.c