Heap Management Problem

Ruben Safir ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Wed Apr 15 04:48:53 EDT 2015


On 04/15/2015 12:28 AM, 慕冬亮 wrote:
> Can you give a detail of what you want to prove?
> I am not familiar with heap management , so I ask for the details!
> mudongliang
> 
> 2015-04-15 0:00 GMT+08:00 <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>:
> 
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:01:58 +0800, 慕冬亮 said:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone:
>>>       What's the rule about heap management? Especially what's the
>> function
>>> of do_brk?
>>
>> Who says there's a "rule" about it? Some userspace heap managers don't
>> even *use* brk() or sbrk(), but instead use mmap() of an anonymous area.
>>
> 
> 

To the OP, what in your mind is a Heap?

Ruben

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