From: cgjks1 AT lut DOT ac DOT uk (James Soutter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: sbrk ?
Date: 26 Oct 1996 05:23:07 GMT
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: Ulrich Lauther (lauther AT cayley DOT zfe DOT siemens DOT de) wrote:
: 
: I need to port my own memory manager from Unix to NT/Visual C++ and
: can't find a sbrk function there.
: 
: Would it be a good idea to steal the sbrk.s (which uses INT 21) from
: the djgpp package, or would I get a grandiose crash?
: 
:         -ulrich


Excuse my ignorance by why use sbrk().  I thought changing sbrk() was a
bad idea because it broke the library functions that called malloc().

In DJGPP, why not just use "__dpmi_allocate_memory" to allocate new
memory for the memory manager (I havn't tried this).  Similarly under
UNIX, why not just use mmap on /dev/zero to allocate memory (it works
for me).


-- James