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[Jon Watte]

To be really pedantic, malloc is a standard C library call. It will 
use some underlying system call to actually allocate virtual memory 
space to allocate from out of. On UNIX, this is traditionally the 
sbrk system call. On BeOS, it's create_area. On Windows it's 
VirtualAlloc. On classic MacOS, memory typically comes out of a 
pre-allocated virtual space that can't grow so it doesn't need a 
separate system call (this is the application heap size setting in 
the Finder).

Cheers,

				/ h+

> malloc() is a system call in C that allocates memory. malloc(1) 
> allocates one byte of memory.



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