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+# Final Project Lab - A Garbage Collecctor in C
+For your final project you will work in teams of 1-3 students.
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+Your goal is to develop a library that when inccluded in a program periodically run and cleans up  any heap memory that is no longer neeeded or referenced.
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+To do so you will need to replace the malloc and free functions in stdio.h such that a in a containing program we only ever call gc_malloc, and never need to call free.
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+See the image below to see where your library lives
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+# Requirements
+1. You will create the garbage collecting library and show it is working via valgrind
+2. You will create a 5-10 min presentation explaining your method, the pro's and con's and any errors
+3. You will record said presentation, upload it to youtube, and submit the link
+4. You will be present during the final period of our class and answer any questions about your method
+
+# Q&A
+1. Can I use internet resources and code for inspiration for my GC?
+- Yes
+2. Can I copy another library verbatim and say this is my method?
+- No
+3. Does my garbage collector need to run in parrallel (via threading)?
+- No, you can asssume the containing c program will periodically call a clean up function
+4. Can I work alone if I want?
+- Yes
+
+# Descriptive Images
+Images are from the Udemy course [System C Project - Write a Garbage Collector from Scratch](https://www.udemy.com/course/memory-leak-detector/)
+![Normal MM](/assets/normal.png)
+![GC MM](/assets/gc.png)
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