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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.