Re: [cc65] malloc and Sort.c(26): Error: Expression expected

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From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2003-03-04 12:43:24 

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:20:06PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> Is "sizeof unsigned" a valid C expression?  I think (and gcc agrees with
> me) that you should use parentheses when determining the storage size of
> a data type, as in "sizeof (unsigned)".  If you omit the parentheses,
> the argument to sizeof should be a valid expression, which "unsigned" is
> not, as it cannot be the name of a constant or variable.

You are right, my code snippet was not correct.

    ra = (unsigned int*) malloc (size * sizeof *ra);        // works, but...
    ra = (unsigned int*) malloc (size * sizeof unsigned);   // ...does not.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz_at_musoftware.de
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