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		vardump on Jan 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Allocate Memory (2016) > It comes across as being written with the intent of highlighting the elevation the author's status as a 'low-level wizard', while conveying as little as possible to the ignorant reader. Technical article for a technical audience, namely POSIX C programmers. There's no secret handshake or subtext to elevate the author.

saagarjha on Jan 13, 2020 [–]

You can be a POSIX C programmer and have no idea what sbrk is. (In fact, it was deprecated very early and removed in POSIX 2001.)

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