From: Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>
To: Dan Olson <dano@agora.rdrop.com>
Cc: Martin Herrman <martin@tuxserver.dyndns.org>,
Linux-8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: buddy algorithm
Date: 11 Jan 2003 00:37:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1042238247.1322.48.camel@cool> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030110143434.G27221-100000@agora.rdrop.com>
> I was under the impression that ELKS assigns 64k to each process, so a
> single 16 bit data pointer can be used and the different segments can be
> simply divided so that each process owns one. There are others on the
> list with much more knowledge about this, though, so I'll wait for one of
> them to clear things up.
>
> Dan
ELKS assigns to the process an initial amount of memory for the stack.
From there that memory is grown as the libc instructs with sys_brk()
calls.
Harry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-10 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-01-10 22:16 ` buddy algorithm Martin Herrman
2003-01-10 22:36 ` Dan Olson
2003-01-10 22:37 ` Harry Kalogirou [this message]
2003-01-11 2:41 ` Alan Cox
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