On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 03:32, Joe Conway wrote:
> Personally I prefer the original style here.
Personally I like the style I used, because it makes one class of
mistake more difficult -- getting the sizeof() wrong. Suppose the type
of the variable you're allocating changes -- if you use
ptr = malloc(sizeof(*ptr));
then the code is still right, but with
ptr = malloc(sizeof(some_type));
you need to remember to update the sizeof(); worse, the compiler won't
warn you about this.
-Neil
