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Re:Pointers Are Complicated, or What’s in a Byte? by pjmlp on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @09:33AM (#17609091)
That linked implementation relies on OS primitives (sysmalloc()), implemented in C, Assembly or whatever was used to write the OS.

Try to implement malloc() on bare metal, without using either Assembly or language extensions.

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