luca78 wrote:
>
> ... neither ANSI C nor ANSI C++
> standards state that a char is one byte long, even if it is true in most
> implementations; it's much better to write
>
>              malloc(len*sizeof(char))
>

No, sizeof(char) is always one by definition.

--Bill Seymour
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