Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:59:15 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Ed Hudson <elh@p5.spnet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <29385.797727555@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Apr 95 08:20:16 PDT." <199504121520.IAA07172@p5.spnet.com>
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> a while ago i encountered an 'application almost bug' wherein > sbrk(1) returns (old_mem+1). Some other unix's > (e.g., SunOS) return a double word aliged value. [Not familiar with the vagaries of either sbrk() on FreeBSD or SunOS, it being a long time since I've had to worry about such things!] So you're saying that in either case you get an extra byte of storage, but in SunOS's case it pads the allocation out to the next doubleword boundry and hands you a suitably aligned pointer? Hmmmmmm. I can't think of anything that would _break_ under the BSD model, can anyone else? If not, I see nothing wrong with Ed's argument.. Jordan
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