allocating the plurality of contiguous, differently-sized memory blocks to satisfy the request for the size of memory regardless of any alignment or nonalignment of any of the plurality of contiguous, differently-sized memory blocks to a rounded up to a next power of 2 value of the size of memory from the request;

wherein the step of providing comprises the step of:

providing the address of the first memory block to the application that made the request to allow the application to use the plurality of contiguous, differently-sized memory blocks regardless of any alignment or nonalignment of the address of the first memory block to the rounded up to the next power of 2 value of the size of memory from the request.