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srpmalloc - Small rpmalloc

This is a fork of rpmalloc, with the intent to be used in single threaded applications only, with old C99 compilers, and in old OS.

Summary of the changes:

  • Works with single thread applications only
  • Works with C99 compilers (C11 is not a required anymore)
  • Remove thread safety
  • Remove atomics usage
  • Remove use of thread locals
  • Remove statistics APIs
  • Remove first class heaps APIs
  • Remove APIs validations
  • Remove huge page support
  • Remove global cache support
  • Remove malloc override support

By removing all this, it's much smaller, and works in old C compilers and Linux distributions, it was confirmed to work for example in Debian 4 with GCC 4.1, the original rpmalloc does not support many old Debian distributions due to use of C11 atomics.