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Re:A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016) by shakna on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:17PM (#17914352)
Is your irritation aimed at the implementations of malloc in the standard compilers? Or all malloc implementations? (e.g. Hoard [0]).

[0] https://github.com/emeryberger/Hoard

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Re:A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016) by valarauca1 on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:46PM (#17921277)
my irritation is C's primitive type system. And programmers willingness to conflate their standard library with system level operations.
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