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		matheusmoreira on Feb 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visual overview of a custom malloc() implementatio... I understand why the use of sbrk is unfortunate but what's wrong with the representation? Are there better ones?

masklinn on Feb 6, 2024 [–]

The heap growing towards the stack is a property of the heap segment (used by brk/sbrk). mmap is not bound to this model, and unless used with MAP_FIXED can associate the allocation with virtual addresses anywhere in the address space.

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