Re: Best Way to Create String Variables in Assembly

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:58:29 GMT
"T.M. Sommers" <tms@xxxxxx> wrote:

:They are the only standard syscalls to get memory from the system.

Actually, as documented in the man page, sbrk is not a system call, but
rather a C library wrapper to the brk call.

-- Chuck
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