Comment by cozzyd

I'm curious about the #ifdef guard, which is of a form I've never encountered.

  #ifndef BD9DF82A4540BB19368E48E4747C0706
  #define BD9DF82A4540BB19368E48E4747C0706

Does some IDE do that for you? Did you just pick a random sequence? Why not just a variant of #ifndef _salmagundi_h that is more common?

Other than that, I strongly echo other's advice about avoiding so many mallocs.