[TUHS] Memory management in Dennis Ritchie's C Compiler

[Nemo Nusquam]

On 08/17/20 18:47, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>
>> From Wikipedia:
>> sbrk and brk are considered legacy even by 1997 standards (Single UNIX
>> Specification v2 or POSIX.1-1998).[5] They were removed in
>> POSIX.1-2001.[6]
>
> On a whim, I checked a couple of boxes around here (I haven't used sbrk()
> since malloc() came along):
>
> Mac:
>
>     The brk and sbrk functions are historical curiosities left over 
> from ear-
>     lier days before the advent of virtual memory management.
>
> FreeBSD:
>
>     The brk() and sbrk() functions are legacy interfaces from before the
>     advent of modern virtual memory management.
>
> Both of them come right after the DESCRIPTION header.

More whimsy from "man sbrk" on Solaris 10:
     The  use  of mmap(2) is now preferred because it can be used
     portably with all other memory allocation functions and with
     any function that uses other allocation functions.

N.
>
> -- Dave