Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:39:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199810292039.PAA28376@indy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <3638D0EA.905F1253@montana.com> (message from bowman on Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:32:42 -0700) Subject: Re: V 2.02 'free' problem addendum Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Each chunk of memory has a small chunk of data on either side of it. The BEFORE chunk comes just before the memory, and the AFTER chunk comes just after it. The AFTER chunk is just before the BEFORE chunk of the next memory region. Each end chunk points to the other chunk, which is how we keep track of the chunk sizes and such.