On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote: > I don't believe the heap is allocated zeroed pages. The kernel > does allocate such pages to the BSS segment, but that's because it > holds zeroed data such as C static variables.
According to McKusick and Neville-Neil's book on FreeBSD, sbrk extends the uninitialized data segment with zero-filled pages. Since malloc() is an interface to sbrk, it does the same thing. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
