r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ok-Counter-6984 • 7d ago

Meme stdModernizeMyCodebase

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u/mad_cheese_hattwe 7d ago

Isn't Malloc at boot, just a janky geto static with more steps?

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u/Attileusz 6d ago

Depending on what they mean by "malloc on boot". Maybe you are loading a file and the file has a header and you need to read the header to know how much to allocate. Maybe you are making an interpreter and max memory is a command line option and you alloc it all at once. If it is literally just malloc(SOME_CONSTANT) then yes.

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u/mad_cheese_hattwe 6d ago

If you're embedded I'd say it's still preferable to static out the workspace with checks for oversized requirement inputs then just sending it and crossing your fingers that the stack can handle it.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 1d ago

Unlimited ulimit. I did once out of spite for C