Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ism.isc.com!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: [m]allocation question
Message-ID: <18340@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 29 Sep 90 17:38:30 GMT
References: <UaxqffS00Vtq8akksB@andrew.cmu.edu> <11666:Sep2603:44:3190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <18552@rpp386.cactus.org>
Reply-To: karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <18552@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>looking at the code fragment, the type of "t" is unknown... there is no
>declaration of "t" laying around...

Oh?  I think you overlooked this line from the original article:
|    static struct node *head, *z, *t;

>I always try to "say what I mean" [and hence write]
>	t = (struct node *) malloc (sizeof (struct node));

I happen to agree, but comp.std.c is not the place for style wars.  Both
`sizeof(*t)' and `sizeof(struct node)' are correct C, and we should leave it
at that.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint