Multiple choice

The ______ system facilitates merging of free space by allocating free areas with an affinity to recombine.

  1. buddy

  2. boddy

  3. baddy

  4. none of these

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A Correct answer
Explanation

The buddy system is a memory allocation algorithm that divides memory into partitions to try to satisfy a memory request as suitably as possible, allowing for easy merging of free blocks.