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Malloc Test Improvement: vary the sizes

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Suggested in #82: > The tests could be further enhanced by varying the sizes and also checking for non-overlapping blocks but I don't intend to do that. I agree.

phillipjohnston

From #82: > One way around the whole static problem would be to let the user provide the memory for the metadata themselves. That would also make it easier to...

phillipjohnston

Support C11 free()

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With aligned_alloc() in the C11 standard, free() is called to free memory, rather than an equivalent `aligned_free()`. We should update our library with some logic that can be used to...

phillipjohnston

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/nl/19041/0b45da64-36ac-4bf3-b53b-52ac7fb545e9/

phillipjohnston

https://github.com/pavel-kirienko/o1heap

phillipjohnston

malloc - add tests that none of the returned blocks overlap. Non-overlap would mean that each returned address + size does not fall within the bounds of another returned address...

phillipjohnston

Add alignment block splitting to malloc_freelist

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## Description The main allocator is modified to split blocks to align them, returning surplus to the free list. I am sharing this because I think this approach is a...

michaeljclark

Provide API to request memory from a specific block

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The library already supports multiple independent blocks of memory. In some systems it might be required to allocate certain buffers in specific locations. In my current use case I have...

stefanct