Previously, the memory allocator on Plan 9 did
not free memory properly. It was only able to
free the last allocated block.
This change implements a variant of the
Kernighan & Ritchie memory allocator with
coalescing and splitting.
The most notable differences are:
- no header is prefixing the allocated blocks, since
the size is always specified when calling sysFree,
- the free list is nil-terminated instead of circular.