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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory
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> 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.