Philippe Gaultier • 10/29/2024

Tip of the day #2: A safer arena allocator

This technical article details a bug in a standard C arena allocator implementation, where out-of-bounds writes can fail to trigger a segmentation fault. It explains the issue, provides a safer solution, and discusses variations like a paranoid approach and a bucket-per-type strategy for improved memory safety in low-level programming.

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#low-level programming #c #memory management