Malloc in Turbo C

[Charles Hannum]

In article <52749 at bbn.COM>, pdsmith at bbn.com (Peter D. Smith) says:
>
>Most implementations of C are screwed up: they give you a dangerous tool
>but don't give you a handle on double-checking the results.

Too much error-checking slows things down.  The assumption in C is that the
programmer *knows* what {s}he is doing.  With power come responsibility ...


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