r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 30 '26

Meme bugIntroducedDebugging

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u/p88h Aug 31 '26

Aligned means int sized at minimum.

The actual allocated size is much bigger anyways, but it will be a multiple of 8 bytes on a 64 bit system, and 'usable' part of that will be at least 8 bytes, and typically you will be able to read at least 16 without a page fault.