Tag
abi-contracts
- Jul 4, 2025 Alignment, Padding, and Over-Aligned Allocation What the alignment guarantee on a returned pointer actually promises, how allocators satisfy requests stronger than the ABI default, and why page-granular requests behave differently. memory systems
- Sep 26, 2023 How free Recovers a Size From a Bare Pointer The address arithmetic that turns a returned pointer back into its block header, the alignment assumptions that make it work, and the cases where the original base cannot be reconstructed. memory systems