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Cesar Rabak wrote:
> Brian Inglis escreveu:
> 
... snip ...
>>
>> -- avoid using types for sizes, in case someone later changes
>> the assigned pointer type; use object sizes instead;
>>
>> 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.

On the contrary, that was excellent advice.  It slaves the
allocation to what is actually being allocated.  If it is not what
you want you have misdeclared a.

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