Oh right, okay. I thought you meant that allocations just couldn’t fail.
Instead you are just forced to handle it properly if it does fail.
Would be very interested to test that in practice. C memory allocations are notoriously tolerant, and will happily let you allocate terabytes of memory that doesn’t really exist until you try write to it.
I’ll definitely have to give that a play at some point.
Ah, that is another thing that Zig does well (in my opinion).
Instead of having a global allocation call, Zig uses an allocator interface interface, meaning you as the programmer can plug in different allocation strategies as you require. So depending on if you do or don’t like that behavior, just pick the allocator accordingly, either for your whole program or just for parts of it.
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Oh right, okay. I thought you meant that allocations just couldn’t fail.
Instead you are just forced to handle it properly if it does fail. Would be very interested to test that in practice. C memory allocations are notoriously tolerant, and will happily let you allocate terabytes of memory that doesn’t really exist until you try write to it.
I’ll definitely have to give that a play at some point.
Ah, that is another thing that Zig does well (in my opinion). Instead of having a global allocation call, Zig uses an
allocatorinterface interface, meaning you as the programmer can plug in different allocation strategies as you require. So depending on if you do or don’t like that behavior, just pick the allocator accordingly, either for your whole program or just for parts of it.