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I would like to dynamically allocate memory from an assembly program that does not link against the standard C library. Since brk(2) and sbrk(2) are unavailable on Mac OS X (10.6.2), what are the alternatives?

(I'm guessing that it involves a Mach call, but there seems to be little documentation around that)

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Probably the easiest thing to do is look at the Darwin sources and see how malloc works internally.

Paul R
For malloc: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-583/gen/malloc.c
Carl Norum
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Looks like malloc calls mmap, which calls __mmap, which looks like it's just a syscall

Ken Aspeslagh