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From: bhoughto@nevin.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Can't type ten steenking lines without a glaring bug...
Message-ID: <3676@inews.intel.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 04:25:50 GMT
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In article <3661@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton, simpering, compiler-wastrel, code-anal weenie) writes:
>	stat( "filename", &stb );
>	buf = (char *) malloc ( stb.st_size * (sizeof (char *)) );
>	fp = fopen( "filename", "r");
>	fread( buf, stb.st_size, 1, fp );	/* yippee! */

Of course, the second line above should be

	buf = (char *) malloc ( stb.st_size );

				--Blair
				  "I wash colored things in hot
				   water all the time, too..."