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Subject: Re: valgrind leak I can't find
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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?