On: “To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”

[spaetzleesser]

Wouldn’t you wrap the allocation with an alloc/free function that does the allocation with whatever extra bytes that are needed? Letting the API users deal with such details seems a recipe for disaster.

[zelly → spaetzleesser]

Because then you're forcing clients to use malloc rather than their own allocator

[spaetzleesser → zelly]

Good point