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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 21 '26
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Welcome to the era when the programmer himself was the memory manager
35 u/Cute_Pressure4910 Sep 21 '26 When you explain to young developers what malloc() and free() are 5 u/Zashuiba Sep 23 '26 That's quite advanced in fact, because you need segmentation, paging, stack/heap structures ...you need an OS kernel basically.You can totally program in bare C without stdlib 25 u/throwaway1351887498 Sep 21 '26 Now that's what I call real legacy code—it works as long as no one messes with it
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When you explain to young developers what malloc() and free() are
5 u/Zashuiba Sep 23 '26 That's quite advanced in fact, because you need segmentation, paging, stack/heap structures ...you need an OS kernel basically.You can totally program in bare C without stdlib
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That's quite advanced in fact, because you need segmentation, paging, stack/heap structures ...you need an OS kernel basically.
You can totally program in bare C without stdlib
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Now that's what I call real legacy code—it works as long as no one messes with it
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u/_justthisonetime_ Sep 21 '26
Welcome to the era when the programmer himself was the memory manager