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From: Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: malloc with cc65
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:59:55 -0500
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:34:07 -0000 (UTC)
Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> wrote:

> 1. cc65 comes with a fully functional heap manager incl. heap
> defragmentation.

That is fantastic!
 
> 2. The cc65 optimizer (always compile with -O) knows about "pointer
> constants" (in contrast to pointer variables) so the code to access
> them is usually faster/smaller.

I'm not sure where a pointer constant would be used in a C program.
Would this be an address defined with #define or something like:
const char *KBD
?