Heap Management
[Nut/OS API]

Dynamic memory allocations are made from the heap. The heap is a global resource containing all of the free memory in the system. The heap is handled as a linked list of unused blocks of memory, the so called free-list.

The heap manager uses best fit, address ordered algorithm to keep the free-list as unfragmented as possible. This strategy is intended to ensure that more useful allocations can be made. We end up with relatively few large free blocks rather than lots of small ones.

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