Re: Malloc & sbrk

heyber.l@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

could someone explain me how malloc() (particularly doug lea's)
deals with programs who calls sbrk on their own.

What happens to the "Wilderness" chunk?

You could look at my nmalloc for DJGPP, which handles just that,
and the testsuite exercizes that feature. See:

<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/nmalloc.zip>

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