xodtemplate.c malloc question

[Andreas Ericsson]

hiren wrote:
> just something I thought was odd, is the following diff valid?
> thanks.
> 

It's a valid diff, but the patch is entirely moot. A pointer to a
pointer is exactly the same size as a pointer to anything else.
As such, this is just code churn that changes exactly nothing.

> 
> --- xdata/xodtemplate.c	2008-11-30 19:22:59.000000000 +0200
> +++ /tmp/xodtemplate.c	2008-12-15 16:45:58.000000000 +0200
> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
>  
>  	/* allocate memory for 256 config files (increased dynamically) */
>  	xodtemplate_current_config_file=0;
> -	xodtemplate_config_files=(char **)malloc(256*sizeof(char **));
> +	xodtemplate_config_files=(char *)malloc(256*sizeof(char *));
>  	if(xodtemplate_config_files==NULL)
>  		return ERROR;
>  

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