+/** Adding the fix for not able to allocate through a reimplemented calloc at the beginning before instantiating our allocator
+A bit circumspect about adding an sbrk. linux docs say to avoid using it... */
+
+void * HandleEarlyAllocationRequest( size_t sz ){
+ if( 0 == mySpace ){
+ void * returnAddress = sbrk( sz );
+ if( nextRequest >= REQUESTS_BEFORE_ALLOC ){
+ exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
+ }
+ allocatedReqs[ nextRequest++ ] = ( size_t )returnAddress;
+ return returnAddress;
+ }
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+/** The fact that I am not expecting more than a handful requests is implicit in my not using a binary search here*/
+
+bool DontFree( void * ptr ){
+ if( howManyFreed == nextRequest ) return false; //a minor optimization to reduce the number of instructions executed on each free call....
+ if( NULL == ptr ) return true;
+ for( int i = nextRequest - 1; i >= 0; --i ){
+ if( allocatedReqs[ i ] == ( size_t )ptr ) {
+ ++howManyFreed;
+ return true;
+ }
+ }
+ return false;
+}
+