PATCH: malloc.c cleanups
Andreas Schwab
schwab@suse.de
Wed Jul 19 02:23:00 GMT 2000
Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
|> OK, I see. It's probably a matter of taste, but I would prefer to see
|> sizeof(main_arena.av[0]) used rather than the cast NULL pointer. My C
|> standard draft says that expressions `usually' aren't evaluated within
|> sizeof, but only in a footnote.
The sizeof expression is only evaluated if it contains a VLA. This is
clearly stated in the semantics section (6.5.3.4#2).
Andreas.
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