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amelius on Feb 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Does memory leak? (1995)

Just read docs that were written in the 70s, before the advent of garbage collection.

p_l on Feb 22, 2020 [–]

Garbage Collection is from 1959, though - and Unix & C's original model pretty much matches "bump allocate then die" with sbrk/brk and lack of support for moving.

Fully static allocation is the norm though for most "small" embedded work.

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