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That's the first thing on the page.

> Interviewer: “What happens if you allocate memory with C’s malloc and try to free it with Rust’s dealloc, if you get a pointer to the memory from C?”

> Me: “If we do it via FFI then there’s a possibility the program may continue working (because the underlying structs share the same memory layout? right? …right?)”



That's fair. Personally, I've skipped that entire pre-section thinking it's a long quote from some book.




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