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		patrick451 on March 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Generic dynamic array in 60 lines of C > The handling of endptr in DYN_ARR_RESIZE seems to be incorrect. If I have an array with 2 elements and capacity of 3 and I DYN_ARR_RESIZE it to 5, I now have an array with 5 elements, 3 of which are garbage values. Why do you say this is wrong? That's exactly what I would expect.

orbital223 on March 1, 2023 [–]

> Why do you say this is wrong?

Exposing uninitialized memory as valid values tends to be a really bad idea.

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