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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:38:22 +0100
From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: mmap versus malloc
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If I want to write an assembly language program without using libc, is it ok
to use mmap and a file descriptor of -1 to allocate memory?

jm
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