Memory Management Simulator 🧠

Overview 📖

Welcome to the Memory Management Simulator! This C program demonstrates key concepts of dynamic memory allocation and deallocation. It allows users to allocate, free, and track memory blocks, while also checking for memory leaks.

Key Features ✨

• Allocate Memory: Dynamically allocate memory blocks with a specified size.
• Free Memory: Frees previously allocated memory blocks by their index.
• Display Memory Status: View the current memory allocation status, including active blocks.
• Memory Leak Detection: Identifies unfreed memory blocks upon program exit.
• User-Friendly Interface: Ensures smooth user interaction with input validation and error handling.

Requirements 🛠️

• C Compiler: GCC or any C compiler.
• Operating System: Works on Linux, macOS, or any POSIX-compliant OS. Windows users can use WSL or MinGW.

Compilation and Setup 🔧

To compile the project, open your terminal and run the following commands:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/VexyPT/memory-manager.git
   cd memory-manager

2. Compile the code:

   gcc -o memory_manager memory_manager.c

   If you are using CMake, follow these steps:

   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake ..
   make

Running the Program 🚀

Once compiled, you can run the program with:

./memory-manager

Upon running the program, you will be presented with the following menu:

1. Allocate Memory: Allocate a new memory block of a given size.
2. Free Memory: Free a previously allocated memory block by selecting its index.
3. Display Memory Status: View the total memory allocated and details of each active memory block.
4. Exit: Exit the program and check for any memory leaks.

Example Usage 📊

--- Memory Management Simulator ---
1. Allocate memory
2. Free memory
3. Display memory status
4. Exit
Enter your choice: 1
Enter the size of memory block to allocate (in bytes): 256
Memory allocated: Address=0x7f8fbd3a7420, Size=256 bytes

--- Memory Management Simulator ---
1. Allocate memory
2. Free memory
3. Display memory status
4. Exit
Enter your choice: 3

--- Memory Status ---
Total allocated memory: 256 bytes
Number of active blocks: 1
Block 0 -> Address: 0x7f8fbd3a7420, Size: 256 bytes
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Memory Management Concept 🧑‍💻

This program simulates memory allocation in C using malloc for allocating and free for deallocating memory. The memory blocks are tracked in an array of MemoryBlock structs, each containing the block's address and size.

Memory Leak Detection 🔍

The program performs a check for any memory leaks upon exiting. If there are memory blocks that haven't been freed, they will be reported.

License 📜

This project is licensed under the MIT License. For more details, check the LICENSE file.

Contributions 🤝

Feel free to fork this repository and submit pull requests for improvements, bug fixes, or new features. For reporting issues or asking questions, open an issue on GitHub.