Investigating C++ Memory Allocation: The 72KB Emergency Pool for Exception Handling
The article investigates why the first memory allocation in C++ programs often appears to be 72KB, revealing that this is due to the C++ standard library setting up an 'emergency pool' for exception handling. The author uses debugging tools like GDB and examines source code from libstdc++, glibc, and Valgrind to trace this behavior, explaining that this pre-
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