On  in a message to Daniel Davis, Paul Haggart wrote:

DD>    cTest = (PCHAR) malloc(12);

PH> I'm no expert, but it looks like you're allocating memory for 12
PH> char pointers?  Is that what you intended?
PH> I always use 'malloc (12 * sizeof(char));' just to be sure I'm
PH> getting the size I want.

Paul, if you ever run into a C compiler where sizeof(char) isn't
one, throw it out immediately.  To describe it as broken would be
charitable.

On the other hand, using (12 * sizeof(char)) is a good idiom from
the documentation standpoint, and there shouldn't be any runtime
penalty.


Ed Blackman

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