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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: A glitch regarding the usual malloc() idiom
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:57:47 -0700
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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> I think if you have a problem with writing 'sizeof(*p)' in the interests 
> of unambiguity, which is actually only one character more than 'sizeof 
> *p', then perhaps C isn't the right language for you!

`sizeof *p` is not ambiguous, so adding parentheses "in the interests of
unambiguity" doesn't make sense.

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