Joseph D. Wagner wrote: > I'm trying to write a tracer on memory allocation, and I'm having a little > trouble figuring this out. > > At some point, malloc has to call the kernel to tell it to allocate more > memory for this user process, right? I can't figure out which function > malloc calls, or where in the code (line number) it's called.
malloc can use either sbrk/brk or (anonymous) mmap to obtain more memory from the kernel. > I'm looking at glib-2.3.1 to try and find my answers. After all, that's > where malloc is defined, right? It's in glibc (GNU libc), not glib (the GNOME utility library). -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
