Re: Return a string in C???

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From: Richard Heathfield
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:56

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chris wrote:

<snip>
> 
> 
> you could have the function allocate the buffer and return the length:
> 
> int StringFunction (char ** buffer) {
>     int bufferSize;
>     ...
>     *buffer = (char *)malloc(bufferSize);

What does the cast buy you?

And why use int, when malloc takes size_t?

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