Richard Henderson writes: > 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. Ah! I didn't understand it like that, sorry. Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth
