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		pizza234 on Sept 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C... Using integers as allocation strategy (as in the referenced use case) will fail when slots are reused.

jcelerier on Sept 20, 2022 [–]

To be fair pointers can (and are) also reused by the OS allocators which can lead to "fun" bugs if you aren't careful

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