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arena

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arena
Ancient history the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheatre, in which gladiatorial contests and other spectacles were held
(programming)arena - The area of memory attached to a Unix process by the brk and sbrk system calls and used by malloc as dynamic storage. So named from a "malloc: corrupt arena" message emitted when some early versions detected an impossible value in the free block list.

See overrun screw, aliasing bug, memory leak, memory smash, smash the stack.


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"But not as they play it in the arena at Manator," replied Lan-O.
The Chessmen of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
He was even taking advantage of the moment to glance across the arena and size up what the bears were doing.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
The Emperor and all his Court came to see the spectacle, and Androcles was led out into the middle of the arena.
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