Chapter 14. Exploring Virtual Memory
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In the last chapter, we discussed how the system manages virtual memory, how each process receives its own private address space, and what a process’ address space looks like. In this chapter, we move away from the abstract and examine some of the Microsoft Windows functions that give us information about the system’s memory management and about the virtual address space in a process.
System Information
Many operating system values are dependent on the host machine: page size, allocation granularity size, and so on. These values should never be hard-coded into your source code. Instead, ...
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