May 15, 2003

arena

n.

[common; Unix] The area of memory attached to a process by brk2 and sbrk2 and used by malloc3 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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:59 AM

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