Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

[Alexander L. Belikoff]

Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "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? 

malloc() is a [much] higher level than the kernel memory allocator. It 
*may* be the case however that *brk() family allocates memory in
4kb-pages. 

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Alexander L. Belikoff
Bloomberg L.P. / BFM Financial Research Ltd.
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