From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Santosh Sivaraj Subject: Re: malloc Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:13:02 +0530 Message-ID: <4D0EDED6.1010100@fossix.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: ratheesh k Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org On 12/20/2010 10:09 AM, ratheesh k wrote: > Is the below statement right or wrong ? > > malloc tries to allocate continous memmory space in virtual address > space. not in physical address space. It is right, you could have googled it.