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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <386@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 21 Dec 88 23:25:16 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <9134@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Dec13.172306.16195@utzoo.uucp> <5146@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1988Dec15.190331.2986@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1988Dec15.190331.2986@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>	foo = malloc(strlen(a)+strlen(b)+2);	/* 2 for '/' '\0' */
>Now, what's a good name for that "2", and how does naming it improve
>readability?

In this case I usually write

	foo =	malloc( strlen(a) + strlen(b) + sizeof("/") );

What do you think of that?

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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu