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its an interesting exercise for learning but the code style is awful.

freel instead of freelist? ffs.

abbreviating memory to mem is enough of a mistake in the standard library without going further to m like malloc does and some of the examples here.

still, much respect, to the coder4life for making such a good effort and having such an awesome name...



The naming discussion stops here; if you have nothing more constructive to add, I suggest silence. They are not mistakes, they are born out of 30 years of experience with naming things. We will never come to an agreement on this, and it's ok. Why not skip ahead to the more interesting discussions that actually lead anywhere?


Coding style never saved anyone's C code from being insecure. So it's not something to be concerned about, C code is generally awful on its own.


What's awful with C on it's own? You can write all sorts of code in C.




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