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Comment by unwind

More obvious problems with the code as shown:

- The macros doing arithmetic (KiB, MIN etc) don't put their arguments in parentheses, that is very dangerous.

- The code assumes that int and i32 are the same size.

- Don't cast the return value of malloc(). Please Google this.

I appreciated the use of structs by value, that's a nice design.

I agree there's a risk of overflow in the arithmetic around sizes/alignment, but with a 64-bit `usize` that should be mostly theoretical.

parent unwind 18 days ago

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