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   Ayo (ayo@lonely.town)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 23:32:15 JST Ayo

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   • Wolf480pl

   @wolf480pl Yup.

   Or, well, it could be considered "safety-checked undefined behavior", of which Zig has more. The general purpose allocator in the standard library reliably catches this error at runtime.

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 23:32:16 JST Wolf480pl

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     @ayo I'm guessing this is especially treacherous because not all allocators care about the size passed to free?

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     Ayo (ayo@lonely.town)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 23:32:19 JST Ayo

     Minor Zig footgun: casting a [:0]T to []T is not safe if you need to free that slice later on - the size passed to free will be off by one.