On 12.08.2015 00:31, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >>> We have had problems with both styles in the past, so neither is immune >>> to bugs. I prefer the explicit type as it is easier to grep. >> The explicit type form is more accident-prone than the variable form >> because any change requires two modifications in the same statement >> instead of one. > Why doesn't the compiler or buildbot catch accidents?
I can't imagine a way for the compiler to emit warnings for such constructs without getting a far too large percentage of false positives. It's perfectly valid, and in many cases required by some object-like architecture, to allocate a buffer that has a different size than the one implied by the pointer that stores the return value. This is C, after all. -- Brane
