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		jacquesm 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Note on Fil-C I agree with you but jitl has a point: implicit reliance on the GC could creep in and you might not notice it until you switch back to regular C.

estebank 7 days ago [–]

Fil-C should have a(n on by default) mode where collecting an unfreed allocation is a crash, if it doesn't already.

pizlonator 7 days ago | [–]

It's not that simple since some object allocations go unfreed.

For example, Fil-C lifts all escaping locals to the heap, but doesn't free them.

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