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From: root@bcstarc.stgt.sub.org (Frank Pecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: malloc under Lattice C V5.05
Message-ID: <73@bcstarc.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 14 Aug 90 00:05:03 GMT
References: <3034@orbit.cts.com>
Reply-To: root!bcstarc@nadia.UUCP (Frank Pecher)
Organization: Boeblingen ComputerScienTific ARChive
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In article <3034@orbit.cts.com> bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) writes:
>According to the errata sheet, malloc is type (void *), and that it should
>not be necessary to put a cast in front of the return value.  However, when
>I had defined the following fragment:
>  char *outname;
>
>  outname = malloc(SomeConstant);
>
>the compiler gave me a warning that the malloc was not the same type as
>outname, and I had to change it to (char *) malloc to get rid of the warning.
>[...]

Which options did you use? I compiled with lc +L <prog> and got no warnings
of any kind, and the executable worked ok. I have version 5.05, too.

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Frank Pecher                           uucp: root@bcstarc.stgt.sub.org
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