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The following resources may be useful to people interested in memory management:

Information and Tools 

Dynamic Storage Allocation and Memory Management Information Repository

Ben Zorn's repository of information on both manual and automatic memory management.

The Garbage Collection List

A mailing list for discussing GC in programming languages, open to all and unmoderated. For more information, send mail to Majordomo@iecc.com with the following command in the body of your email message: info gclist; for subscription instructions, add a line saying: help. The list is archived at IECC and TUNES (threaded).

The Garbage Collection FAQ

Although only a draft, this is a thorough explanation of many details of garbage collection.

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory

A newsgroup for Microsoft® WindowsTM programmers, concentrating on memory management issues.

OSFAQ.com Memory Management page

More useful links on memory management.

Memory Management Research 

the Garbage Collection Page by Richard Jones

Richard Jones wrote Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management, the first English-language book concerned solely with garbage collection. This site contains a large bibliography and links to other resources.

University of Texas OOPS Group publications

A collection of interesting papers by the Object-Oriented Programming Systems group headed by Paul Wilson.

University of Texas Garbage Collection repository

A collection of relevant papers, including papers from the OOPSLA Workshops on Garbage Collection in 1990, 1991, and 1993.

ISMM/IWMM

Details of all the International Symposia/Workshops on Memory Management

ISMM at the ACM Digital Library

Proceedings of the International Symposia on Memory Management, plus list of related conferences.

OOPSLA'97 GC and MM Workshop

1997 OOPSLA Workshop on Garbage Collection and Memory Management (unrefereed).

Language-specific Resources 

comp.lang.c FAQ

The FAQ for the main C language Usenet newsgroup; it covers common "gotchas" with malloc/free and static memory. See section 7 in particular.

C++ FAQ Lite

The FAQ for the main C++ language Usenet newsgroup; it covers constructors, destructors, and lots more.