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Re: Using ggc-page with plain malloc

To: Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram dot Gloger at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
Subject: Re: Using ggc-page with plain malloc
From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>
Date: 21 Jan 2000 07:28:45 -0200
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <orembhepjt.fsf@garnize.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> <200001210900.KAA18967@max.zk-i.med.uni-muenchen.de>

On Jan 21, 2000, Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram.Gloger@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

> I would suggest to use anonymous mmap() or mmap() on /dev/zero
> (whereever one of those is available) to obtain pages of memory.

That's what we use as the first option.  malloc() is to be used as a
fallback solution when neither mmap nor valloc are available.

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References:
- Re: Using ggc-page with plain malloc
  - From: Alexandre Oliva
- Re: Using ggc-page with plain malloc
  - From: Wolfram Gloger

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