References

Some very good contemporary textbooks on principles of operating systems:

Crowley, Ch., Operating Systems, A Design-Oriented Approach , Irwin/McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997 .

Silberschatz, A., Galvin, P. B., and Gagne, G., Operating System Concepts , Wiley, New York, 2002 .

Stallings, W., Operating Systems - Internals and Design Principles , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2001 .

Tanenbaum, A. S., Modern Operating Systems , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2001 .

An excellent text (recommended in several chapters of this book) that is focused on C++ and includes topics on effective memory management:

Sutter, H., Exceptional C++ , Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 2000 .

Fundamentals of compilers principles and techniques; an oldie, but still the best text around:

Aho, A. V., Sethi, R., and Ullman, J. D., Compilers - Principles, Techniques, and Tools , Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1988 .

Other texts on the fundamentals of compiler principles and techniques:

Pittman, T., and Peters, J., The Art of Compiler Design, Theory and Practice , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992 .

Waite, W. M., and Carter, L. R., An Introduction to Compiler Construction , HarperCollins, New York, 1993 .

Fundamentals of computer architecture:

Hamacher, C., Vranesic, Z., and Zaky, S., Computer Organization , McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002 .

Hennessy, J., and Patterson, D., Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Elsevier, New York, 2002 .

Murdocca, M., and Heuring, V. P., Principles of Computer Architecture , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1999 .

Stallings, William, Computer Organization and Architecture - Principles of Structure and Function , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1996 .

Fundamentals of programming languages:

Clark, R. G., Comparative Programming Languages , Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 2001 .

Mitchell, J. C., Concepts in Programming Languages , Cambridge University Press, 2002 .

Pratt, T. W., and Zelkowitz, M. V., Programming Languages - Design and Implementation , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2001 .

The Internet is an excellent source for technical details about memory and memory management in various operating systems, but there is no guarantee of how the links will be maintained in the future:

Gorman, M., "Code Commentary on the Linux Virtual Memory Manager", http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/pdf/code.pdf .

Gorman, M., "Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager", http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/pdf/understand.pdf .

Myers, N. C., "Memory Management in C++", C++ Report , July/August 1993 (part 1) and December 1993 (part 2); also at http://www.cantrip.org/wave12.html .

Russinovich, M., "Inside Memory Management", part 1, Windows & .NET Magazine , http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?IssueID=56&ArticleID=3686 .

Russinovich, M., "Inside Memory Management", part 2, Windows & .NET Magazine , http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?IssueID=58&ArticleID=3774 .

An excellent site for links concerning technical knowledge of memory management for various operating systems:

http://www.memorymanagement.org .