[Discuss] Casting the return value of malloc bad?

[Daniel M. German]

 Adam> Good point, but if the line immediately before the malloc looked like:

 Adam> SomeType * foo = NULL;


 Adam> then wouldn't sizeof (*foo) choke (NULL pointer dereference)?

*foo is a type, not a reference. It is never evaluated.


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