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Subject: Re: valgrind leak I can't find
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:26:50 +0300
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:18:38 +0100
Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

> On 23/08/2024 12:03, Stefan Ram wrote:
> > Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote or quoted:  
> >> I don't want to post the code since it is just for me relearning
> >> C.  
> > 
> >    It's totally your prerogative if you wanna keep your code
> >    on the down-low. No need to spill the beans.
> > 
> >    But just to cut through the fog in your logic, your "since"
> > reasoning is a bit of a brain-bender: If I'm cranking out some code
> > to sharpen my C chops, that's no reason to bury it six feet under
> > later on. 
> >> (I'm creating a tiny collections lib: Vec (of void*), VecStr,
> >> VecInt, SetInt, SetStr.)  
> > 
> >    Yeah, for sure. But we got to wonder if these are really
> >    meat-and-potatoes C problems . . .
> > 
> >    Scope out what C was cooked up for in the first place. Eyeball
> >    those vintage UNIX source files: "find.c", "echo.c", "tar.c",
> >    "ls.c", "zork.c", "tail.c", and all that noise. How many of
> >    those kick off with a container library?
> > 
> >    What gnarly waves are you missing out on in efficient and
> >    idiomatic C programming by thinking, "I'll use my container
> >    library and write C like it's some Silicon Valley startup code!"
> >  
> 
> So, what have you done with the real Stefan Ram?
> 

It looks like real Stephan Ram hatched out of old restrictive eggshell
few months ago. 
BTW, in order to compare his writing style of old with the new one, I
tried to look for his posts on Google Groups. It turned out that I can
only see citations. Posts themselves are not archived. Mysterious.