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From: Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: buddy algorithm
Date: 11 Jan 2003 00:37:35 +0200
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> 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