tbh it ' s a double copy paste goof up . tbh it ' s a double copy paste goof up . <| sep |> I don ' t assume , the way you write indicates it clearly you call people gullible . You keep on insisting that I swallowed his bullshit . And please , do elaborate on this losing free money because I have absolutely no idea what you are referring to . <| sep |> It ' s probably a hardware issue . <| sep |> Ok cool , I did consider implementing load your way but I figured that by mallocing in large blocks like 512 I might end up mallocing a bunch of space that could remain empty when fread reaches the end of the file i . e if file is 513 bytes total and I have malloced 1024 for it . I guess it would just be a tradeoff in that case less calls to mallocrealloc vs tighter use of memory space or something like that ? Anyway thats PSET 6 finally done for me hooray ! thanks for your guidance