Why Does Calloc Exist?

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  • musl

    musl libc working copy (by rofl0r)

    • I don't believe the spec ever calls out what is exactly supposed to happen for multiplication overflow, and this was left up to the implementation to decide what to do. That being said, libmusl implemented a short but sweet check [1]. Fun stuff.

    [1]: https://github.com/rofl0r/musl/blob/d05aaedaabd4f5472c233dbb...

  • unix-history-repo

    Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today

    • Regurgitating from an older comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110538

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    The first version of UNIX to include `calloc` was Research UNIX V6, and here's how it was implemented: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

        calloc(n, s)

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  • Cap'n Proto

    Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - core tools and C++ library

  • requests

    A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

    • Some of the links in the paragraph about python-requests have bitrotted. Fixed links:

    https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/3729

    https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/cffi/-/issues/295

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