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Alex Vinokur wrote:
> "Martin Ambuhl" <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net> wrote in message 
>> Cesar Rabak wrote:
>>> Brian Inglis escreveu:
>>
>>>> this is cleaner and more maintainable:
>>>>
>>>> a = malloc(rows * columns * sizeof *a);
>>>>
>>> This is not a good advice: you're changing the allocation of an
>>> object of (rows x columns) ints to another of (rows x columns)
>>> pointers to int.
>>
>> You are, I regret to say, in error.  The type of *a is int, not
>> pointers-to-int.
> 
> You are right. So,
>  a = malloc(rows * columns * sizeof  a);
                                      ^^
No no, 1000 times no, that should be "*a".

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