I always meant to ask, why is it that we chose to dedicate the beginning of
> the memory chunk to NMT, and not the end?
>
> If we used the end, then in this case with an unbalanced malloc/free, we
> would still be OK.
>
> The end seems more natural to me and either way we need to track the size,
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently working on https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8296360; I
> was preparing the final PR [1], but then Alan did ask me to discuss this on
> core-libs first.
>
> Backstory:
>
> NMT tracks hotspot native allocations but does not cover the JDK libraries
> (small exception