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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: double free
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:48:58 -0700
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 11/07/2016 21:19, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>>> array = malloc(soezif*sioezf*siozef);
>>> array = malloc(szeiof*sizeof*siozef);
>>> array = malloc(szeoif*soiezf*sizoef);
>>> array = malloc(sozief*soizef*sozeif);
>>> array = malloc(sieozf*sizoef*sizoef);
>>> array = malloc(szeoif*seizof*sozeif);
>>
>> Putting aside the absurd example, I'd make two remarks:
>>
>> 1. In my editor the sizeof is bright blue so it stands out very clearly
>>    despite your best attempts to hide it.
>
> (I hope there was only one? I was in a hurry to go out and forgot to check!)
>
> My point still stands but few are seeing it, that it just looks very odd 
> that on one line you have A*B*Cm multiplying three names, yet in another 
> lexically identical line, it means something quite different.

I don't think anyone is failing to see your point.  We just don't think
it's significant.

You can write horribly obfuscated code in C, and it's easier in C than
in most other languages.

So don't do that.

[...]

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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