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To be fair, one probably wouldn't go much beyond malloc lest they at least roughly knew how memory works, heap/stack, etc.
by K0SM0S 10y ago
To be fair, one probably wouldn't go much beyond malloc lest they at least roughly knew how memory works, heap/stack, etc.
- torrent-of-ions 10y agoThe word is "unless". Be careful with words like "lest" if you don't fully understand the meaning (it is not synonymous with "unless"). But no, trust me there are C programmers who use malloc and friends without knowing about the heap and stack. For those programmers it's just how you "get memory" in C. It's just part of the language for them (as opposed to part of the operating system).