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Re: java memory allocation with gcj


isuru herath wrote:

> I am interested in studying how "new" allocates memory when running
> as native binary. For this I wrote a simple Java class which just
> create an int array. Then I generate the assembly with gcj -S
> option. There I spotted the call to _Jv_NewPrimArray. Since the
> result of the call is stored in eax register I check the value of
> the eax register after this call. But it is giving a small number. I
> tried the same thing with C. There I spotted the call to malloc and
> check the eax after the malloc call and it has the same value as the
> &variable_name has.

_Jv_NewPrimArray calls the memory allocator (actually part of the
Boehm garbage collector) which calls
mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, ..) to map
the memory.

Andrew.


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