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neutronicus on July 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Lily Programming Language

The C line is bad because it isn't checking for NULL?

scott_s on July 1, 2016 [–]

A "gets memory" comment is unnecessary next to a call to malloc.

nomel on July 2, 2016 | [–]

The complete omission of "free" is strictly necessary after a "gets memory" comment, though.

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