Malloc question

[makerimages]

Implemented your memory management in my OS. DO I understand corrently that pmalloc allocates virtual memory? and malloc physical? If not, what does it do?

[cjhannah]

pmalloc allocates memory page aligned. should be obvious

Implemented your memory management in my OS. DO I understand corrently that pmalloc allocates virtual memory? and malloc physical? If not, what does it do?

I know this is old, but how the f*** do you blindly implement someone's memory managers and have absolutely no idea what they do? Also, no, malloc() and family should disk up virtual memory, etc.