detecting the memory page size

Question

Is there a portable way to detect (programmatically) the memory page size using C or C++ code ?

Answer 1

Yes, this is platform-specific. On Linux there's sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE), which also seems to be POSIX. A typical C library implements this using the auxiliary vector. If for some reason you don't have a C library or the auxiliary vector you could determine the page size like this:

size_t get_page_size(void)
{
    size_t n;
    char *p;
    int u;
    for (n = 1; n; n *= 2) {
        p = mmap(0, n * 2, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
        if (p == MAP_FAILED)
            return -1;
        u = munmap(p + n, n);
        munmap(p, n * 2);
        if (!u)
            return n;
    }
    return -1;
}

That's also POSIX, I think. It relies on there being some free memory, but it only needs two consecutive pages. It might be useful in some (weird) circumstances.