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Re:Let's Build a Simple Database by lang4d on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:52AM (#35829989)
From Part 3, does malloc(PAGE_SIZE) actually guarantee a single full page is allocated or would the allocation be positioned arbitrarily and stretch across two pages?
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Re:Let's Build a Simple Database by webshit2 on Friday May 05, 2023 @11:44AM (#35830752)
That should be a valloc or aligned_alloc for it to actually be page-aligned
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