>After browsing some classpath native code it seems that malloc is used
>for allocating native memory. I'm not sure how portable it is between
>various VMs.
>I'm afraid that in some cases it can just crash vm which manages brk by
>itself. Maybe some level of indirection can be used (memory interface by
>pointers, or just #defines).
How often do we do this? I'm not sure that this is a problem right now.
Since porting Classpath to a new JVM requires some coding effort, it we
wanted to port it to support one where this was the case, we would have to
address this issue as well.
What does Kaffe do, btw?
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