[Discuss] Casting the return value of malloc bad?

[Adam Parkin]

Daniel M. German wrote:
> I guess everybody has different "techniques". This is the one that I
> currently used, developed during my years as an IBMer:
> 
> int returnValue = -1;
> MyType *p = NULL;
> 
> do {
>     /* allocate memory and use a debug library to detect leaks */
>     p = malloc(sizeof(*p));
>     if (p == NULL) 
>        goto error;

AHHHHHH A GOTO!!!! =8-p

Sorry, had to be the first to say it. =;->
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