>> If you can convince the caller to keep track of that metadata themselves you obviously don’t need to. That can be important.
> That's why C23 introduce free_sized
Is it? C23 still has free, so there’s no guarantee callers wil use free_sized, so the allocator still has to be able to obtain a block’s size from a pointer.
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>> If you can convince the caller to keep track of that metadata themselves you obviously don’t need to. That can be important.
> That's why C23 introduce free_sized
Is it? C23 still has free, so there’s no guarantee callers wil use free_sized, so the allocator still has to be able to obtain a block’s size from a pointer.
Or do I overlook something?