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11.ds RH Implementation
12.NH
13Implementation
14.PP
15A new malloc(3) implementation was written to meet the goals,
16and to the extent possible to address the shortcomings listed previously.
17.PP

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23which contains a
24.B void*
25for each page we have control over.
26The value can be one of:
27.IP
28.B MALLOC_NOT_MINE
29Another part of the code may call brk(2) to get a piece of the cake.
30Consequently we cannot rely on the memory we get from the kernel to
31be one consequtive piece of memory and therefore we need a way to
32mark such pages as "untouchable".
33.IP
34.B MALLOC_FREE
35This is a free page.
36.IP
37.B MALLOC_FIRST
38This is the first page in a (multi-)page allocation.
39.IP

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