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The system keeps track of storage allocations based on the address of the
initial byte allocated and the amount of storage allocated. So when you
dealloc passing the address of the initial byte, the system can easily
lookup the amount of storage that was allocated (and deallocate it). If you
pass in a pointer value addressing the middle of an allocation you'll simply
get an error.
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