Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

"Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At the hw level: The addressable memory on an Intel proecssor is divided
> into pages (currently 4k each ?). This is the minimum size of any
> allocated memory, file, program etc. 

Are you saying that "malloc(sizeof(int))" allocates 4k on an Intel
machine? 

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