1. Elaborate more on this, as this doesn't agree with my understanding of it. Glibc Malloc allocates differently depending on the size of the allocation -- glib

1. Elaborate more on this, as this doesn't agree with my understanding of it. Glibc Malloc allocates differently depending on the size of the allocation -- glibc uses dynamic mmap thresholds, which as I previously stated starts at 128kb, but when blocks larger than the current threshold are freed, the threshold is adjusted to the size of the freed block, unless once again, you've set any of the slew of paremeters that disable the threshold in which case you'll go back to either "old school" brk() memory management by storing current and previous results of sbrk(0) or you will have arenas for small allocations managed through mmap(). 2. If only this were true, I regularly pine for the days of EIP -> 0xc0c0c0c0. It is true that some compilers generate entirely RWE memory pages, but usually for much different reasons (Executable stacks for GCC trampolines, for example)