SMRTR ProgrammingNov 23, 2025Hacker News

I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C

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A C memory allocator that recreates malloc, calloc, realloc, and free using sbrk for small allocations and mmap for large ones. Includes block splitting and coalescing optimizations but isn't thread-safe.

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