this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024

570 points (98.3% liked)

Programmer Humor

19551 readers

1038 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

570

Sometimes I want to call malloc, just as a treat (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by verysuchaccount@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'd effectively gain the advantage of dynamic allocation by using a union (or just a generic unsigned char buffer[16384] and use it twice). Mostly the same thing as a malloc.