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From: peterli@ux5.lbl.gov
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Subject: Re: Distinguishing stack and heap objects
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Date: 5 Jan 91 07:52:40 GMT
References: <1990Dec29.013620.23761@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
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In article <1990Dec29.013620.23761@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> horstman@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU (Cay Horstmann) writes:
>Recently someone asked whether one can distinguish objects allocated with
>new from those allocated on the stack, and it just occurred to me that this
>is possible. Ignore this if the technique is an old hat, it is new to me.
>
>Cay

For platforms with uniform address space and where stack and data
grows toward each other, then you should be able to use sbrk(0).
Read man pages end(3) and sbrk(2).

Peter Li