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		orlp on Sept 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A simple heap memory allocator in about 230 lines ... free returns void, so even the "return true;" was wrong.

katastic on Sept 17, 2017 [–]

Okay, well, this was a story I was told like 8 years ago when I was back in college. So I'm bound to have mixed up the details. But the event did happen. It passed the unit tests even though he was supposed to manage and free pages.

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