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This is a complete set of memory allocation functions (malloc and
friends). 
    The allocator is small, fast and space-efficient. 

    It performs coalescing on frees. 

    It has hooks for profiling, tracing and memory leak detection. 

    It has very comprehensive and paranoid errorchecking as a compile
    time option, enough to detect most forms of heap corruption.

    Optionally, it attempts to be compatible with the proposed ANSI C
    Standard definition for the standard library functions malloc(),
    calloc(), realloc() and free(). By default, it is more or less
    compatible with existing Unix malloc() functions - some
    differences do exist. (Notably free(), cfree() returning void,
    realloc() not accepting a freed block)