Boot loader + malloc

[Oliver Fromme]

Jordan Gordeev wrote:
 > At present the amd64 kernel is loaded just above the first megabyte
 > of physical memory.

Yes, I know, and the standard i386 kernel is loaded at 4 MB,
and the PAE kernel is loaded at 2 MB.  It doesn't matter 
much, though.

 > I have no idea if the loader uses malloc()/free() after the kernel
 > is loaded though.

Yes, it does.  By default the loader loads the kernel first,
then fires up the "beastie" menu which causes quite some
malloc() activity.  FICL uses malloc() internally for
various things.

Best regards
   Oliver

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