“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by shakna on Thursday July 12, 2018 @06:25PM (#17519127)

It's handy in C for guarding parts of the language, as you often have to check return values anyway.

    if(malloc(10000 * sizeof foo) == NULL) {
      // Error processing
    } // No need for an else branch here.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by the-dude on Thursday July 12, 2018 @06:56PM (#17519309)

Missing assingment.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by shakna on Thursday July 12, 2018 @07:34PM (#17519481)

    int success = NULL;

    if(success = malloc(...)) {
    }
    if(success = malloc(...)) {
    }
    if(success = malloc(...)) {
    }

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by slavik81 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:39PM (#17519737)

That will result in undefined behaviour if the value returned by malloc is greater than INT_MAX. If you really need an integer, use intptr_t. But, generally it makes more sense to just use a pointer.

    char* p = NULL;
    if (p = malloc(...)) {
      ...
    }

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