Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacsort: safer sizeof types when allocating memory

On 30/01/16 00:47, Julien Ramseier wrote:

--- src/util/pacsort.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/pacsort.c b/src/util/pacsort.c index c69ae2f..a652b43 100644 --- a/src/util/pacsort.c +++ b/src/util/pacsort.c @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static struct buffer_t *buffer_new(size_t initial_size) return NULL; }

- buf->mem = calloc(initial_size, sizeof(char)); + buf->mem = calloc(initial_size, sizeof(*(buf->mem))); if(!buf->mem) { free(buf); return NULL;

Why is this safer? A