sbrk(2) question

[Richard Tobin]

In article <2045 at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au> boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>|        sbrk(100000);
>|        printf("hello world\n");
>|        sbrk(-100000);

>Well, I thought everybody new that sbrk(2) and malloc(3) just
>don't mix.

There is no reason for sbrk() and malloc() to "not mix" provided you're
careful not to free memory you didn't allocate.  On the other hand,
there's not usually a good reason to not just use malloc().

>Odds on printf(3) calls malloc and gets some memory
>whose address is > sbrk(0) + 100000*.

Yes, this is what happens.  Malloc() uses sbrk() to get some memory,
and the user's sbrk() frees it.

-- Richard
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