Re: Variable-sized lines of text in linked list

CBFalconer said:

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However you carefully snipped the portion where I pointed out that
this is no different than using the malloc family in any program.

I carefully snipped out the portion where you mentioned malloc because I
didn't see how it was relevant to what I was saying. I *always* remove (or
at least I always try to remember to remove) text from my reply if it is
irrelevant to the point I am making about the article to which it relates.

It is certainly true that, every time you call malloc, you are responsible
for freeing the memory thus allocated. It is for *precisely* this reason
that it's a good idea to reduce the number of calls to malloc to the bare
minimum. The ggets function fails to do this.

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