To: dg@EMARKT.COM Cc: From: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 02:55:14 -0400 Newsgroups: linux.dev.8086 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:08:07 BST From: dg@emarkt.com No, it doesn't. The kernel doesn't use malloc() for a number of reasons, the most important probably being that it doesn't *have* malloc() (the kernel's got a very limited subset of the standard C library). Data is usually stored on the stack rather than the heap, AFAIK. In fact, I can't recall ever seeing a kernel-space memory allocation routine... I've use mmalloc(), but that allocates the ELKS equivalent of user- space memory instead. There's got to be one --- can someone enlighten me? biglinux has kmalloc IIRC.
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