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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Malloc and lint
Message-ID: <2178@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 23:15:54 GMT
References: <10487@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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I have found on most BSD machines if you provide your own wrapper
around malloc and declare it to return a "long *" rather than a
"char *" you only get one complaint.  This is good practice anyhow:

	typedef long *align_t;

	align_t
	myalloc(size)
	    unsigned int size;
	{
	    char *p;

	    if (p = malloc(size))
		return (align_t)p;
	    fatal("Ran out of memory");
	    /* NOTREACHED */
	}
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