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hardened_malloc

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A security‑focused general‑purpose memory allocator designed to harden against heap corruption while reducing metadata overhead and fragmentation.

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Features

  • Provides malloc API with extensive hardening extensions
  • Reduces metadata overhead and fragmentation compared to traditional allocators
  • Supports configurable independent arenas for scalability
  • Targets 64‑bit environments with aggressive address‑space usage

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14 Bug fix

Memory allocator improvements including edge case fix for realloc operations from small allocations, libdivide library update, and GCC 15 warning suppression.

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