Hackernews posts about Malloc

Malloc is a fundamental memory allocation function in computer programming that dynamically allocates and deallocates memory blocks for programs to use.

1. Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   55 points by ingve 24 days ago | 80 comments
2. Algeria (malloc.dog)
   2 points by eatonphil 4 days ago | discuss
3. On Far Memory (malloc.dog)
   2 points by eatonphil 9 days ago | discuss
4. Turkish court orders ban on Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok for offensive content (www.washingtonpost.com)
   14 points by MallocVoidstar 10 days ago | 1 comments
5. The IELR(1) algorithm for generating minimal LR(1) parser tables for non-LR(1) g [pdf] (people.computing.clemson.edu)
   4 points by fanf2 20 days ago | discuss
6. The World Is Warming Up. and It's Happening Faster (www.nytimes.com)
   11 points by malloryerik 19 days ago | discuss
7. Show HN: PlutoFilter- A single-header, zero-allocation image filter library in C (github.com)
   76 points by sammycage 5 days ago | 16 comments
8. Btrfs Allocator Hints (lwn.net)
   57 points by forza_user 9 days ago | 60 comments
9. Show HN: Easy alternative to giflib – header-only decoder in C (github.com)
   24 points by FerkiHN 1 day ago | 10 comments
10. UC divests hedge funds as CIO criticizes high fees, low returns (www.pionline.com)
    13 points by hhs about 9 hours ago | 2 comments
11. Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021) (sin-ack.github.io)
    235 points by fanf2 about 1 year ago | 175 comments
12. Let's Write a Malloc (2014) (danluu.com)
    129 points by yla92 over 1 year ago | 29 comments
13. Visual overview of a custom malloc() implementation (silent-tower.net)
    92 points by signa11 over 1 year ago | 30 comments
14. Malloc() and free() are a bad API (2022) (www.foonathan.net)
    49 points by davikr about 1 year ago | 27 comments
15. Battle of the Mallocators (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
    27 points by qianli_cs 3 months ago | 11 comments
16. How much memory does a call to 'malloc' allocates? – Daniel Lemire's blog (lemire.me)
    8 points by signa11 about 1 year ago | 2 comments
17. How much memory does a call to 'malloc' allocate? (lemire.me)
    6 points by ingve about 1 year ago | discuss
18. Visual overview of a custom malloc() implementation (silent-tower.net)
    5 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | discuss
19. Memory Safety with MallocPlusAI (twitter.com)
    4 points by Apocryphon 9 months ago | 1 comments
20. A malloc Tutorial (2009) [pdf] (wiki-prog.infoprepa.epita.fr)
    4 points by aragonite about 1 year ago | 1 comments
21. Writing a preloadable malloc in Rust, using MMTk (www.humprog.org)
    4 points by ingve 2 months ago | discuss
22. iOS's new malloc (developer.apple.com)
    4 points by tambourine_man about 1 year ago | discuss
23. Hardened Malloc Designed for Linux (github.com)
    4 points by whereistimbo about 1 year ago | discuss
24. Malloc() and free() are a bad API (2022) (www.foonathan.net)
    3 points by moutansos over 1 year ago | 3 comments
25. MALLOC_PERTURB_: Everyone should set this envvar (devel.fedoraproject.narkive.com)
    3 points by amelius almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
26. OpenBSD: Malloc(3) leak detection gains backtraces (www.undeadly.org)
    3 points by peter_hansteen over 1 year ago | discuss
27. Show HN: C++ Arena Allocator That's 200x+ Faster Than GNU Malloc (github.com)
    2 points by slaghate 4 months ago | 3 comments
28. Remove editorializing ("infamous OOM killer") from malloc man page (2010) (bugzilla.kernel.org)
    2 points by benatkin 7 months ago | 2 comments
29. RocksDB and glibc malloc don't play nice together (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
    2 points by miohtama almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
30. Untagged Mallocs (wingolog.org)
    2 points by ingve 5 months ago | discuss
31. Randalloc: Fast and memory safe malloc implementation using rand (github.com)
    2 points by linkdd 6 months ago | discuss
32. efency: An efficient electric-fence malloc debugger for the 21st century (gitlab.com)
    2 points by matt_d 9 months ago | discuss
33. How much memory does a call to 'malloc' allocate? (lemire.me)
    2 points by adunk about 1 year ago | discuss
34. How much memory does a call to 'malloc' allocates? (lemire.me)
    2 points by mfiguiere about 1 year ago | discuss
35. Why it is bad idea to check result of malloc call with assert (pvs-studio.com)
    1 points by GodCreation over 1 year ago | 1 comments
36. Gemini, Malloc, and Me (substack.com)
    1 points by code-anth about 2 months ago | discuss
37. Writing a preloadable malloc in Rust, using MMTk (www.humprog.org)
    1 points by matt_d 2 months ago | discuss
38. A Malloc Tutorial [pdf] (github.com)
    1 points by t55 6 months ago | discuss
39. Malloc() vs. MMAP(MAP_SHARED) in Multithreaded Programs (carun.github.io)
    1 points by fanf2 6 months ago | discuss
40. Malloc(0) & Realloc( ，0) ≠ 0 (nabijaczleweli.xyz)
    1 points by fanf2 6 months ago | discuss