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Re:Simple Dynamic Strings library for C by unwind on Friday February 07, 2014 @03:45AM (#7195354)
Exactly! For some reason this anti-pattern is very thoroughly entrenched among C programmers and it's so very frustrating.

My other favorite is casting the return value of malloc(), something you see a great deal of and that I always oppose. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605845/do-i-cast-the-resu... for my best arguments.

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Re:Simple Dynamic Strings library for C by Narishma on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:54AM (#7196800)
Casting the return value of malloc is necessary in C++. I think that's why it's so widespread, so you can compile your C program with a C++ compiler.
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