On Thursday, 30 October 2025 23:27:14 Pacific Daylight Time Lénárd Szolnoki
wrote:
> I think it makes sense to wrap and expose the mremap capability (with
> MREMAP_MAYMOVE) in the allocator. I don't think it can be broken down to
> smaller operations, it really is a transaction.
>
> Having said that, having only this operation is indeed limited. A "try
> resize allocation inplace" operartion would indeed be useful.

Indeed, or a mrealloc() function that takes a flags field, one of which would be
MAYMOVE.

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