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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A glitch regarding the usual malloc() idiom
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Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> writes:

> On 2016-07-20, Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
>>
>>>> It's the double abstraction problem
>>>>
>>>> magptr = malloc(40 * sizeof(float));
>>>>
>>>> tells us that we are asking for 160 bytes of memory.
>>>
>>> No, it doesn't. It tells us we're asking for 40 * sizeof(float) bytes
>>> of memory.
>>
>> Supremely confident idiot.
>
> Your suggestion that RH's an idiot tells us more about you than it
> tells us about RH.  Can you explain what's wrong with RH's remark?

I wasn't suggesting that RH is an idiot.