Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers

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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_14

14. Dynamic Memory Allocation

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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Tulsa, OK, USA

 

So far, we have not gone into detail about what the memory layout of a Linux process looks like, primarily because we hadn’t covered enough material to make sense of it. In this chapter, we will look at how Linux processes work with memory and how to make your process request more memory from the operating system.

14.1 Virtual Memory

In reality, all memory addresses that your process uses are a lie. In order to protect programs from other programs that may have bugs or go rogue, modern operating systems use ...