Memory Manager in C?

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Memory Manager in C?

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I'm sure someone has done it, so would anyone care to help me, I've looked through the tutorial in the wiki, but I'm still confused. :?
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What exactly are you confused about?

Physical or virtual memory manager?

The tutorials in my sig have an implementation of both in C.
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If you read the wiki, as you said, surely you read the 'posting rules' thread?

Memory management is a whole slab of a regular kernel, and is comprised of several independant components. You need a way of managing physical memory and a way of mapping virtual memory. Neither of those contain a malloc(n) type function. You overlay that on top of those base components.
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