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> hacks like conventionally placing the next/prev pointer in structs This is not a hack, it is the way it should be in C.

• dermesser 3y ago
  Except that that's a linked list and not an array.
  • flohofwoe 3y ago
    You can store your 'list items' in an array and still link to random items in the array - although an index instead of a pointer would make more sense in that case, but what else is an index than a pointer with fewer bits ;) The main advantage being that you don't need to alloc/free individual items.
    • dermesser 3y ago
      Great, so now we're writing our own memory allocator?
      • flohofwoe 3y ago
        If you want to call about 10 lines of trivial code a 'memory allocator', then yup, we're totally going to write our own 'memory allocator' ;)