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Re:WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe by floatboth on Sunday November 25, 2018 @06:25PM (#18529757)
Pretty much only glibc malloc still uses brk. GNU being GNU I guess. Modern mallocs like jemalloc use mmap exclusively.

FreeBSD straight up did not implement sbrk at all for aarch64 and riscv – very very few things broke because of that (one of the things that did break was, IIRC, GNU Emacs).

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