🧠 Custom Memory Allocator in C

Given my interest on low-level stuff i decided to build a custom memory allocator written in C, implementing my not so good versions of:

• my_malloc – allocate memory
• my_calloc – allocate zero-initialized memory
• my_realloc – resize allocated memory
• my_free – free memory
• print_heap – visualize the heap structure

Supports aligned memory, block splitting, and merging for efficient memory management.

---

🔹 Features

• Fully functional malloc/calloc/realloc/free replacements
• Heap visualization via print_heap()
• Splitting & merging blocks to reduce fragmentation
• Aligned memory support (16-byte alignment by default)

---

📦 Usage

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/custom-allocator.git
cd custom-allocator
gcc start.c my_malloc.c my_calloc.c my_realloc.c helpers.c free.c debug.c -o start
./start