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Heap improvements (#462)

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* Heap improvements

This commit makes the following improvements:

1. Add a check to heap_2 to track if a memory block is allocated to the
   application or not. The MSB of the size field is used for this
   purpose. The same check already exists in heap_4 and heap_5. This
   check prevents against double free.

2. Add a new flag configHEAP_CLEAR_MEMORY_ON_FREE to heap_2, heap_4 and
   heap_5. The application writer can set it to 1 in their
   FreeRTOSConfig.h to ensure that a block of memory allocated using
   pvPortMalloc is cleared (i.e. set to zero) when it is freed using
   vPortFree. If left undefined, configHEAP_CLEAR_MEMORY_ON_FREE
   defaults to 0 for backward compatibility. We recommend setting
   configHEAP_CLEAR_MEMORY_ON_FREE to 1 for better security.

3. Add a new API pvPortCalloc to heap_2, heap_4 and heap_5. This API
   has the following signature:
   void * pvPortCalloc( size_t xNum, size_t xSize );
   It allocates memory for an array of xNum objects each of which is of
   xSize and initializes all bytes in the allocated storage to zero. If
   allocation succeeds, it returns a pointer to the lowest byte in the
   allocated memory block. On failure, it returns a null pointer.

Signed-off-by: Gaurav Aggarwal <aggarg@amazon.com>
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@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ void vPortGetHeapStats( HeapStats_t * pxHeapStats );
* Map to the memory management routines required for the port.
*/
void * pvPortMalloc( size_t xSize ) PRIVILEGED_FUNCTION;
void * pvPortCalloc( size_t xNum,
size_t xSize ) PRIVILEGED_FUNCTION;
void vPortFree( void * pv ) PRIVILEGED_FUNCTION;
void vPortInitialiseBlocks( void ) PRIVILEGED_FUNCTION;
size_t xPortGetFreeHeapSize( void ) PRIVILEGED_FUNCTION;