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                      3: arena                       Definition                      arena
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                      8: An arena is the area of memory that is available for a program to
                      9: allocate dynamically  at run time.  It  is divided into allocated
                     10: and unallocated blocks.  The unallocated blocks together form the
                     11: ``free memory pool''.
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                     13: Portions  of  the  arena can  be  allocated  using the  functions
                     14: malloc, calloc, or realloc; returned to the free memory pool with
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                     16: To check  whether the  arena has been  corrupted or not,  use the
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                     19: ***** See Also *****
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                     21: calloc(),  definitions,   free(),  malloc(),  memok(),  notmem(),
                     22: realloc()
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