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From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: abhishek desai <abhi00@gmail.com>
Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using libgcj with different memory management library.
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2CDDB2.3060206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <898285d30906080243o70b109a0g54a6b3b00a87f4d2@mail.gmail.com>

abhishek desai wrote:
>> I don't understand how this can work.  The gc is a memory manager; how
>> can it use some other memory manager to do its own work?  You'll have
>> to explain a little more.
> 
> From what I understand GC uses GC_unix_get_mem to allocate memory
> which calls mmap on /dev/zero on my system. This memory is managed by
> GC for object allocation and also for GC internal working. I hope this
> is correct. What I want to do is replace the mmap with my_malloc call
> which will return a pointer to the allocated memory. my_malloc will
> allocate memory from an internal fixed memory pool.

That will work fine.

Andrew.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08  7:06 abhishek desai
2009-06-08  9:09 ` Andrew Haley
2009-06-08  9:43   ` abhishek desai
2009-06-08  9:45     ` Andrew Haley [this message]

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