hardcoded constants

[Tom Stockfisch]

In article <1988Dec15.190331.2986 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>	foo = malloc(strlen(a)+strlen(b)+2);	/* 2 for '/' '\0' */
>Now, what's a good name for that "2", and how does naming it improve
>readability?

In this case I usually write

	foo =	malloc( strlen(a) + strlen(b) + sizeof("/") );

What do you think of that?

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