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getpagesize - get memory page size
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Description
The function getpagesize() returns the number of bytes in a memory page, where "page" is a fixed-length
block, the unit for memory allocation and file mapping performed by mmap(2).
History
This call first appeared in 4.2BSD. SVr4, 4.4BSD, SUSv2. In SUSv2 the getpagesize() call was labeled
LEGACY, and it was removed in POSIX.1-2001.
glibc 2.0 returned a constant even on architectures with multiple page sizes.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
getpagesize - get memory page size
See Also
mmap(2), sysconf(3)
Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 getpagesize(2)
Standards
None.
Synopsis
#include<unistd.h>intgetpagesize(void);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
getpagesize():
Since glibc 2.20:
_DEFAULT_SOURCE || ! (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L)
glibc 2.12 to glibc 2.19:
_BSD_SOURCE || ! (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L)
Before glibc 2.12:
_BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
Versions
A user program should not hard-code a page size, neither as a literal nor using the PAGE_SIZE macro,
because some architectures support multiple page sizes.
This manual page is in section 2 because Alpha, SPARC, and SPARC64 all have a Linux system call
getpagesize() though other architectures do not, and use the ELF auxiliary vector instead.
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