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> but you can also call malloc/free within an unsafe block. Very cool. I was afraid I would be forced into an FFI type scenario (which Rust apparently has good

• steveklabnik 10y ago
  No problem. To elaborate on _this_ slightly, today in stable Rust you can call libc's malloc/free directly. There's also the Rust alloc::heap module, but it's not yet stable, and so is only available on nightly Rust https://doc.rust-lang.org/alloc/heap/index.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/alloc/heap/index.html
  • ci5er 10y ago
    Cool. I didn't even find either of those on the roadmap a bit over year ago when I looked at it -- outside some speculative chat on forums/lists/tickets. It seems as if I need to give it a couple more months and give it a look-see again.