Creating a Heap and Allocating memory on it???

[LordMikado]

Can someone help me... I am looking for a way (in C/C++) to allocate dynamic memory on a specific heap. Ideally, I would like to create that heap or just acquire it from the current process.

In a nutshell, I want to be able to do in Linux what I can do using the windows API functions (HeapAlloc, HeapFree, GetProcessHeap, and CreateHeap).

I've looked around the documentation on glibc 2.7 and all around the web, and I could manage to find a solution to my problem. Does anyone know how to do this??

As a context of application: I am building an application with multiple dynamic libraries which all share the same memory and need to be able to alloc/free dynamic memory at will on a shared heap. If anyone has suggestions on solving this problem, it's welcomed as well.

thank you in advance,
LordMikado

[wje_lf]

If you go to freshmeat.net and search for "memory allocation", you'll find memory allocation debugging tools (which you don't want, or at least didn't ask for), and memory allocation implementations (which you do want). If you like one of those packages and the package requires you to provide it with the memory that is to be organized into a heap, do that with malloc() or sbrk().

Hope this helps.