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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: hiding lint's ravings (was Re: FAQ - malloc array - clarify)
Message-ID: <90Sep11.231853edt.558@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Keywords: malloc, Sun, lint
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 12 Sep 90 03:19:40 GMT
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ik@laic.UUCP (Ik Su Yoo) writes:
>#ifndef lint
>#define MALLOC(size)			(malloc(size))
>#else
>#define MALLOC(size)			(0)
>#endif

With the unfortunate side effect that you now don't let lint check the
argument to malloc/calloc/realloc/free.  I much prefer the lint noise
to this -- the lint noise doesn't hurt, but a missing argument to
realloc may.

If you create functions to allocate the different types you need, and
stick them in a file, you get the lint noise in a single well-known
place (or a few well-known places) and can easily ignore it.

	Mark.