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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>arena</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="Archimedes.html" title="Archimedes"/><link rel="next" href="arg.html" title="arg"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">arena</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Archimedes.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="arg.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="arena"/><dt xmlns="" id="arena"><b>arena</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; Unix] The area of memory attached to a process by
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">brk</span>(2)</span>
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and
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sbrk</span>(2)</span>
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and used by
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">malloc</span>(3)</span>
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as dynamic storage. So named from a <b class="command">malloc: corrupt
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arena</b> message emitted when some early versions detected an
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impossible value in the free block list. See <a href="../O/overrun-screw.html"><i class="glossterm">overrun
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screw</i></a>, <a href="aliasing-bug.html"><i class="glossterm">aliasing bug</i></a>, <a href="../M/memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory
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leak</i></a>, <a href="../M/memory-smash.html"><i class="glossterm">memory smash</i></a>, <a href="../S/smash-the-stack.html"><i class="glossterm">smash the
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stack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Archimedes.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="arg.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Archimedes </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> arg</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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