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spaetzleesser on Nov 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: “To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”

Wouldn’t you wrap the allocation with an alloc/free function that does the allocation with whatever extra bytes that are needed? Letting the API users deal with such details seems a recipe for disaster.

zelly on Nov 23, 2020 [–]

Because then you're forcing clients to use malloc rather than their own allocator

spaetzleesser on Nov 24, 2020 | [–]

Good point

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