[Discuss] Casting the return value of malloc bad?

[Daniel M. German]

 George Farris twisted the bytes to say:

 George> On Sat, 2006-15-07 at 13:48 -0700, Adam Parkin wrote:
 >> Andrew Resch wrote:
 >> >> Paul Nienaber wrote:
 >> >>> Do it this way:
 >> >>>
 >> >>> foo = malloc(n * sizeof(*foo));
 >> >>

 George> If you are going to be doing stuff like this in C you should maybe have
 George> a look at glib.  The lower level library used with gtk.  It has some
 George> very nice routines for C programmers even if they aren't using gtk.

The discussion is academic, not practical ;) It is about training our students
to like (some) and hate (some) C/C++. The true C/C++ programmers will
like it and hate it at the same time :)



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