Re: [MiNT] Freeing child's base page

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Miro Kropacek wrote:
> But remember, we're not doing something like FreeProcessMemory( 
> pointer_to_its_bp ); but just plain Mfree( pointer_to_its_bp ); So we 
> lose information where its data/text/bss segment is but I doubt we lose 
> also the data/text/bss segment *content* by this Mfree() call.

You miss the fact that (basepage+text+data+bss+stack) is always a single 
contiguous memory block starting at the basepage. If you Mfree the 
basepage, you free the whole block starting from the basepage, including 
the global variables in the data and bss segment.

However, it seems that MiNT handle special executable flags to share the 
text segment among several process, but I never tried them as this is a 
very specific case.

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Vincent Rivière