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Re: Administrivia: List Announcement
From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange () nsk no-ip org>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:45:29 +0100
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:45:21AM -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
And for goodness sake, let's cast things properly if you're going to malloc, and for good form include the size of the element, even when it's a char: char *buf1 = (char*)malloc( SIZE * sizeof(char) );
No, bad idea. If malloc isn't defined, the compiler will cast an int to a pointer, which may not be the same size. If malloc is (well) defined, it returns a type of (void *), well casted to any pointer by the compiler. Regards, Luciano Rocha
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