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		SomeoneFromCA on May 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chromium project finds that 70% of security defect... Really? What about an OS kernel code? How does "it's allcator" interacts "with the OS"? And what these allocators were written in?

pjmlp on May 25, 2020 [–]

Usually in a mix of Assembly and whatever is used in OS systems implementation language, not necessarily C.

https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Ker...

The malloc() exposed in a ISO C standard library implementation isn't necessarily related to whatever means the OS does memory allocation.

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