Notes on  ARENA 

[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.

J3N Research Labs

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