Malloc/free algorithm in Suse

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  •  22-09-2019
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Question

Which implementation of malloc/free is used in a specific Linux distribution (in my case Suse 9 and Suse 10) ?

Has it change between both versions ?

Is it the same algorithm for 32 bits and 64 bits versions ?

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Solution

malloc and free are implemented in the C library rather than the operating system itself. If you find out what C library you have, you can know this. I don't know Suse but most linuxes will be using glibc (the GNU version of the C standard library).

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