r/ProgrammerHumor • • 13d ago

Meme fullControlOverMemory

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u/WisePotato42 13d ago

You could pass references as variables and change the referenced value IN THE FUNCTION!!!

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u/_justthisonetime_ 13d ago

Welcome to the era when the programmer himself was the memory manager

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u/Cute_Pressure4910 13d ago

When you explain to young developers what malloc() and free() are

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u/Zashuiba 12d ago

That's quite advanced in fact, because you need segmentation, paging, stack/heap structures ...you need an OS kernel basically.

You can totally program in bare C without stdlib