A dreadful thing

[kpreid]

some type *foo;
size_t count = ...;

...

foo = malloc(count * sizeof * foo);

Comments

[mattsnaps.livejournal.com]

If I saw that line of code in a project I worked on, I'd assume it was a bug and talk to the developer who wrote it. If that dev told me it was not a bug, I'd ask him to add parentheses. If he didn't want to to that, well, then I'd kick him right in the fucking nuts.