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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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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
>
> Gareth, you're not helping.

Well, if you keep treating Malcolm's ridiculous rules, ground less
assertions and self-serving ever-mutating redefinitions of standard
terms as the starting point for debate (and bear in mind he never never
never admits that his rules are anything other than totally correct)

                 well ... you're not helping either.

At least I have brevity on my side.