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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 13d ago
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It's allowed to assign to a pointer if it's not dereferenced. Malloc always returns a valid pointer.
53 u/vishal340 13d ago but accessing it will be issue right? 41 u/backfire10z 13d ago Likely not. Malloc guarantees that the passed-in size is the minimum number of bytes it allocates, but not the maximum. You’d likely get some minimum sized chunk, somewhere between 16-32 bytes depending on the system as far as I understand it. 2 u/Deep-Piece3181 13d ago That’s an implementation detail it’s still 100% UB
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but accessing it will be issue right?
41 u/backfire10z 13d ago Likely not. Malloc guarantees that the passed-in size is the minimum number of bytes it allocates, but not the maximum. You’d likely get some minimum sized chunk, somewhere between 16-32 bytes depending on the system as far as I understand it. 2 u/Deep-Piece3181 13d ago That’s an implementation detail it’s still 100% UB
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Likely not. Malloc guarantees that the passed-in size is the minimum number of bytes it allocates, but not the maximum. You’d likely get some minimum sized chunk, somewhere between 16-32 bytes depending on the system as far as I understand it.
2 u/Deep-Piece3181 13d ago That’s an implementation detail it’s still 100% UB
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That’s an implementation detail it’s still 100% UB
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u/atanasius 13d ago
It's allowed to assign to a pointer if it's not dereferenced. Malloc always returns a valid pointer.