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