Ng> The area of memory attached to a UNix process by the brk aNd sbrksystem calls aNd used by malloc as dyNamic storage. So Named from a "malloc: corrupt areNa" message emitted wheN some early versioNs detected aN impossible value iN the free block list. See overruN screw, aliasiNg bug, memory leak, {memory smash}, {smash the stack}. [JargoN File] (1995-12-28)