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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (void *)  ?  /* again */
Keywords: coerce
Message-ID: <2032@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 90 13:22:12 GMT
References: <6200009@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <21771@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <21771@unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes:

| Have you tried to coerce the type with 
|     
|        plong = (long *) malloc(sizeof(long)); 
| 
| and no declaration of malloc? This way you can use malloc for several
| different types of pointers in the same program.

  Sounds non-portable to me! If you don't declare malloc the compiler
assumes an int and generates code to convert an int into an address.
Since malloc doesn't return an int, in many implementations this will
not work properly.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me