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pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Here’s the compiler flag for it.

Finding the reason for its existence from a credible source isn’t as easy, however. If you’re fine with an explanation from StackOverflow, you can infer that it’s there because some programs treat pointers as signed integers and die horribly when anything above 7FFFFFFF gets returned by the allocator.

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