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diff --git a/open_issues/placement_of_virtual_memory_regions.mdwn b/open_issues/placement_of_virtual_memory_regions.mdwn index 95b9e545..39478f20 100644 --- a/open_issues/placement_of_virtual_memory_regions.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/placement_of_virtual_memory_regions.mdwn @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_gnumach]] -IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-13 +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-13 <braunr> does anyone know if posix (or mach) has requirements or a policy about the placement of allocations of virtual space ? @@ -87,3 +87,17 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-13 <braunr> jkoenig: i really want to miss as little as possible on the vm part, so having detailed information about what actually happens on running hurd systems is something i need + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-24 + + <braunr> oh btw, i noticed there are many mappings below the program text + <braunr> most notably, the stack + <braunr> except for special applications like wine, could this break + anything ? + <braunr> i also wonder how libraries are mapped, because there is nothing + to perform top-down allocations + <braunr> which means if the region below the program text is exhausted, + libraries could be mapped right after the heap + <youpi> it shouldn't break anything except things like wine & libgc, yes + <braunr> which could make malloc() fail :/ |