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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1998
Richard Weeks, Felixstowe, GB;
British Telecommunications plc, London, GB;
Abstract
In order to reduce problems caused by a user corrupting memory by incorrect use of memory allocation functions in the C programming language, memory allocation requests of an application ( ) are monitored by a monitor sub-process ( ) during run-time, and invalid memory allocation requests are detected and the application interrupted by the monitor sub-process. Additionally, an allocator sub-process ( ) external to the application performs the memory allocation requests to shield the memory from user errors. A start-up dialog ( ) synchronises the application ( ) and allocator ( ), and the allocator maintains during run-time a memory segment ( ) conforming to the memory ( ) allocated to the application.