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		up2isomorphism on March 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Speed of Rust vs. C Your C library does not check malloc returns and also malloc and free everywhere inside library functions are not the best way to write a C library.

gattr on March 13, 2021 [–]

As for malloc/free, I'm guessing the recommendation is to allow the user to pass their own allocator on library initialization?

Non-checked malloc returns - ouch, I count 12 (out of 56) without a check. Thanks for pointing this out.

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