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From: korpela AT islay DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: (none)
Date: 11 Jan 1996 18:23:27 GMT
Organization: Cal Berkeley-- Space Sciences Lab
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In article <DKzMM1 DOT KrA AT jade DOT mv DOT net>,  <kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com> wrote:
>
>	if (!my_pointer)
>		my_pointer = (my_struct_t *)malloc( sizeof (my_struct_t) ); 
>
>Or BETTER CODE but equivalent:
>
>	if (my_pointer == (my_struct_t *)NULL)

Is this really better?  Could option 1 fail?  I thought the C standard
guaranteed that the top option would work.

Eric

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