From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net, comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:38:24 +0200
Date: 2004-05-26T09:38:24+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.2.1085557119.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258309.UlGiJVGX7P@linux1.krischik.com>
> one could use calloc. calloc zeros memory and therefore touches every page.
Maybe not - perhaps the virtual memory mapping just points those pages at
the zero page (a special physical page filled with zeros), with copy-on-write
so you get assigned a real page only if you write to it (calloc won't need to
write, because it knows the page starts "filled" with zeros).
Ciao,
Duncan.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 22:54 Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory conditions? Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-21 0:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-21 0:47 ` Stephen Leake
2004-05-21 0:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-21 1:00 ` Stephen Leake
2004-05-21 3:29 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-21 8:04 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-05-21 9:34 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-21 11:13 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-05-21 12:55 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-21 16:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-21 17:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-21 23:41 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-05-23 8:20 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-21 19:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-21 16:56 ` Mark H Johnson
2004-05-21 17:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-21 21:39 ` user
2004-05-21 22:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-21 22:11 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-22 11:40 ` Simon Wright
2004-05-25 20:43 ` Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-25 20:58 ` Duncan Sands
2004-05-25 21:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-25 21:31 ` Duncan Sands
2004-05-26 7:09 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-26 7:38 ` Duncan Sands [this message]
2004-05-26 8:16 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-26 8:34 ` Duncan Sands
2004-05-26 16:20 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-22 13:40 ` Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory conditions? Duncan Sands
2004-05-22 14:09 ` Martin Krischik
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