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

Le 30 janv. 2016 à 10:00, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> a écrit :

Why is this safer?

Safer is maybe not the most appropriate word. This simply prevents mistakes by having to write the correct type twice. Using char* instead of void* is also semantically incorrect: - void **new_list = realloc(list->list, newsz * sizeof(char *)); + void **new_list = realloc(list->list, newsz * sizeof(*new_list)); - Julien