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jancsika on July 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing Rust 1.19

I've never quite understood this one.

For example-- what happens if I create an array of foos and then malloc data of each element to some arbitrary size?

repsilat on July 21, 2017 [–]

You don't do that. Each one is usually allocated on its own, and you keep a pointer to each. Though you could store them contiguously if each contains a length member or they're delimited in some other way.

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