Memory Management

Memory is allocated to programs in chunks, the documentation in this set explains how to allocate, manage and release that memory.

• Memory Management Overview
  Provides functionality concerned with how memory is allocated for and within programs.
• Cleanup Support Overview
  Provides idioms to handle program exceptions, and to clean up memory when exceptions occur
• Memory Allocation Overview
  Provides low-level functionality by which a Symbian platform process can access and manipulate memory areas.
• Memory Management Concepts
  Provides an introduction to memory management, especially chunks and heaps.
• Using Memory Allocation
  These documents cover heap management, specifically sharing, walking and switching heaps.
• More about Cleanup Support
  Provides an introduction to code construction and error management options.
• Heap Management Guide
  This document describes Heap management.