From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE>
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Subject: Re: mem alloc taking up power of 2
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 13:06:52 +0200
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Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> AFAIK, no you don't. malloc uses sbrk to get memory from the DPMI server. It
> gets *that* memory in powers of 2 to reduce overhead, but then parcels it

That's correct.

> out to malloc calls as it's needed. So each structure should just be using a
> 34K block, it's just that malloc grabbed some extra which will be given to
> the next request.

But that's NOT correct. malloc() returns also the power of two aligned
block to the user.

Robert
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