Why malloc? Surely this is an on-heap object, not malloc allocated?
tialaramex•2mo ago
I think you've got yourself confused. The heap is what malloc is allocating. So it's like you said "Surely this is somewhere in Europe, not France?" or "Surely this is a round shape, not a circle?"
comex•2mo ago
Not when we’re talking about a JVM, which has its own heap that does not use malloc.
tialaramex•2mo ago
The JVM is of course just software. In this case it's mostly software written in C++ and that software allocates "its own heap" using uh... malloc
In the specific case of the OpenJDK, there isn't the one JVM, rather a standard[0], like in ISO languages, with a reference implementation to go along it,
ErikCorry•2mo ago
Why malloc? Surely this is an on-heap object, not malloc allocated?
tialaramex•2mo ago
comex•2mo ago
tialaramex•2mo ago
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share...
pjmlp•2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines
And the list doesn't include all, e.g. PTC (https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc)
[0] - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/index.html
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ErikCorry•2mo ago