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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: [m]allocation question
Message-ID: <11666:Sep2603:44:3190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 90 03:44:31 GMT
References: <UaxqffS00Vtq8akksB@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <UaxqffS00Vtq8akksB@andrew.cmu.edu> ghoti+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam Stoller) writes:
>         t = (struct node *) malloc(sizeof *t);

The argument of sizeof isn't evaluated. Only its type matters. This is
correct code, and perhaps easier to understand than the other obvious
version.

---Dan