Re: [Valgrind-developers] Shadow space?

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Tom Hughes wrote:

> Does anybody know why we map the whole of the shadow space at startup
> using PROT_NONE and then just change the protection on pages as they
> are required rather than just allocating them as required?

Isn't it to prevent anything else being put in the shadow memory area?

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