Richard Henderson writes:
> On 01/26/2011 03:07 AM, Stefano Bonifazi wrote:
>> P.S. Please just answer that last question, whether it is possible to
>> have a variable showing the upper bound of heap (some brk_end) for a
>> target process
> No, the heap grows until it reaches some other memory mapped entity.
>From man brk(2) :
"sbrk() increments the program's data space by increment bytes.
Calling sbrk() with an increment of 0 can be used to find the
current location of the program break."
I already sent this to the list in a previous mail, but it seems you
overlooked it as you were not an explicit recipient.
Lluis
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