Your dynamic storage allocator will consist of the following four functions, which are declared in mm.h and defined in mm.c.

int mm_init(void); void mm_malloc(size_t size); void mm_free(void ptr); void mm_realloc(void ptr, size_t size); The mm.c file we have given you implements the simplest but still functionally correct malloc package that we could think of. Using this as a starting place, modify these functions (and possibly define other private static functions), so that they obey the following semantics:

mm_init: Before calling mm_malloc, mm_realloc or mm_free, the application program (i.e., the trace-driven driver program that you will use to evaluate your implementation) calls mm_init to perform any necessary initializations, such as allocating the initial heap area. The return value should be -1 if there was a problem in performing the initialization, 0 otherwise.

mm_malloc: The mm_malloc routine returns a pointer to an allocated block payload of at least size bytes. The entire allocated block should lie within the heap region and should not overlap with any other allocated chunk.

We will comparing your implementation to the version of malloc supplied in the standard C library (libc). Since the libc malloc always returns payload pointers that are aligned to 8 bytes, your malloc implementation should do likewise and always return 8-byte aligned pointers.

mm_free: The mm_free routine frees the block pointed to by ptr. It returns nothing. This routine is only guaranteed to work when the passed pointer (ptr) was returned by an earlier call to mm_malloc or mm_realloc and has not yet been freed.

mm_realloc: The mm_realloc routine returns a pointer to an allocated region of at least size bytes with the following constraints.

if ptr is NULL, the call is equivalent to mm_malloc(size);

if size is equal to zero, the call is equivalent to mm_free(ptr);

if ptr is not NULL, it must have been returned by an earlier call to mm_malloc or mm_realloc. The call to mm_realloc changes the size of the memory block pointed to by ptr (the old block) to size bytes and returns the address of the new block. Notice that the address of the new block might be the same as the old block, or it might be different, depending on your implementation, the amount of internal fragmentation in the old block, and the size of the realloc request.

The contents of the new block are the same as those of the old ptr block, up to the minimum of the old and new sizes. Everything else is uninitialized. For example, if the old block is 8 bytes and the new block is 12 bytes, then the first 8 bytes of the new block are identical to the first 8 bytes of the old block and the last 4 bytes are uninitialized. Similarly, if the old block is 8 bytes and the new block is 4 bytes, then the contents of the new block are identical to the first 4 bytes of the old block.