The really trippy part of doing malloc (for me anyways) was using extra space around the allocations to store the data the free lists needed to work--it felt li

The really trippy part of doing malloc (for me anyways) was using extra space around the allocations to store the data the free lists needed to work--it felt like hiding stuff in the margins of a manuscript. As the author points out, malloc is very easy if you don't worry about free'ing anything. :)