+ size_t requested_size = size; // The amount of memory requested by user, for real
+
+ /* Work even if the user was stupid enough to ask a ridicullously small block (even 0-length),
+ * ie return a valid block that can be realloced and freed.
+ * glibc malloc does not use this trick but return a constant pointer, but we need to enlist the free fragments later on.
+ */
+ if (size < SMALLEST_POSSIBLE_MALLOC)
+ size = SMALLEST_POSSIBLE_MALLOC;
+