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Re: malloc-based ggc-page
On Jan 19, 2000, Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr> wrote:
> Read carefully. valloc(size) is implemented by calling malloc after adding
> pagesize-1 to size. So unless size == 0, malloc is called with something
> larger than a page, so malloc's result is aligned on a page boundary.
This information can't be derived from the snippet you posted. Is it
really true that malloc on OpenBSD will return a page-aligned address
just because size > pagesize? This would mean a lot of memory is
wasted!
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