[Discuss] Casting the return value of malloc bad?

[Paul Nienaber]

Routines?  Why would I want *more* code to do what I can do elegantly
with one malloc() call?  I'm confused here.  Also, using glib makes your
code non-portable, which is, IMNSHO, BS.

~p

George Farris wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-15-07 at 13:48 -0700, Adam Parkin wrote:
>   
>> Andrew Resch wrote:
>>     
>>>> Paul Nienaber wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Do it this way:
>>>>>
>>>>> foo = malloc(n * sizeof(*foo));
>>>>>           
>>  >>
>>     
>
> If you are going to be doing stuff like this in C you should maybe have
> a look at glib.  The lower level library used with gtk.  It has some
> very nice routines for C programmers even if they aren't using gtk.
>
>