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Re:Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures) by avgcorrection on Sunday July 02, 2023 @06:54AM (#36560239)
> These are memory-unsafety bugs.

It seems that these are memory-unsafety bugs with the caveat that they have nothing to do with the memory allocator. Maybe a sort of sandboxed memory unsafety? I don’t know.

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Re:Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures) by kmstout on Sunday July 02, 2023 @10:13AM (#36561666)
> nothing to do with the memory allocator

It's an application-specific memory allocator.

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Re:Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures) by avgcorrection on Sunday July 02, 2023 @11:35AM (#36562429)
That’s in effect what I’m saying. You’ve implemented a memory allocator using the “system” one.
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