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From:	Cesar Rabak <crabak AT acm DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: Trouble of using very large arrays
Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:59:00 -0300
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Martin Ambuhl escreveu:
> 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. 

Thanks for the deference! I in fact got trapped by the idiom as Chuck 
observed as well.

The code as written is syntactically correct.

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Cesar Rabak

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