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From: levy@mtcchi.uucp (2656-Daniel R. Levy(0000000)0000)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How to stop lint complaining about malloc()
Message-ID: <1990Jul1.230310.18314@mtcchi.uucp>
Date: 1 Jul 90 23:03:10 GMT
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scottl@mercury.sybase.com (Scott Luebking) writes:

<One trick I found helpful to get around the lint/malloc problem is to include:

<#if LINT
<#define malloc(x)         NULLPTR
<#endif       /*  LINT  */

<at the beginning of the file or in a central include file.  When lint is
<executed, the LINT macro is defined.

Maybe this is a stupid question on my part, but... might this elicit complaints
about test of a constant (you DO check the result of malloc, don't you)?
-- 
Daniel R. Levy
Memorex Telex Corporation
Naperville IL
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