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Malloc & sbrk
Posted by heyber.l@gmail.com on March 5th, 2006


Hi,

could someone explain me how malloc() (particularly doug lea's) deals
with programs who calls sbrk on their own.

What happens to the "Wilderness" chunk?

Thanks.

Posted by CBFalconer on March 5th, 2006


heyber.l@gmail.com wrote:
You could look at my nmalloc for DJGPP, which handles just that,
and the testsuite exercizes that feature. See:

<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/nmalloc.zip>

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