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arena
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [common; Unix] The area of memory attached to a process by brk (2) and
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sbrk (2) and used by malloc (3) as dynamic storage. So named from a malloc:
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corrupt arena message emitted when some early versions detected an
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impossible value in the free block list. See overrun screw , aliasing bug ,
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memory leak , memory smash , smash the stack.
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