On 01/26/2011 12:17 PM, Lluís wrote: > Richard Henderson writes: > >> On 01/26/2011 03:07 AM, Stefano Bonifazi wrote: >>> P.S. Please just answer that last question, whether it is possible to >>> have a variable showing the upper bound of heap (some brk_end) for a >>> target process > >> No, the heap grows until it reaches some other memory mapped entity. > >>From man brk(2) : > > "sbrk() increments the program's data space by increment bytes. > Calling sbrk() with an increment of 0 can be used to find the > current location of the program break." > > I already sent this to the list in a previous mail, but it seems you > overlooked it as you were not an explicit recipient.
That's the current top of the heap. I answered the question as if it was asking for the maximum top of the heap. r~
