shared memory

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <566 at gestetner.oz> andrew at gestetner.oz (Andrew Hunt) writes:
>Does anyone know what areas of memory can be legally attached to 
>shared memory?

This is a very OS dependent portion of the code.  What I usually do
is attach a segment at the default address and compare the value of the
pointer to the value of a malloc'd pointer (yes I know that comparing
pointers to unrelated objects is not always defined).  If the two 
are too close, I detach the segment and re-attache it at a much 
higher address (like 1MB higher).


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