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Epilog Block

The epilog block also only has a header and footer with empty payload.

The header value for the eplilog block is

        0/1
     

size 0 and allocated bit = 1.

The actual size of the epilog is really 8, but setting the size value in the header to 0 makes it unique among all blocks and so it can be used to detect the end of the heap area when searching the blocks.



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