can you explain what you meant when you said "the program fails after allocationg about 800mg(appx. i dont remember). This is the excerpt from calloc man page, Calloc will either fail or succeed but there is no way you can tell so much was alloted and then it failed. *Return Value***For calloc() and malloc(), the value returned is a pointer to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any kind of variable, or NULL if the request fails.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:09 AM, amit <amitjaspal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. a mad user tries to allocate 1 gb memory using calloc. > but the program fails after allocationg about 800mg(appx. i dont > remember). Tell me what could have gone wrong? > > 2. > We know disabling interrupts works only if it is single processor(i.e > local disabling of interrupts). > > Consider this case where we have a SMP(symmetric multi proc) the > processor. Processor-1 wants to perform some critical operation so it > disables all the interrupts. > > What will happen when processor-2 throws an interrupt. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
