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From: berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
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Subject: Re: casting void pointers
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Date: 23 Apr 91 09:47:18 GMT
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Roger A. Hurwitz writes:
>Even K&R 2d states that an explicit cast should be used with malloc(),
>in another part of the book (p. 142), but I am having trouble reconciling
>that with the above language.

malloc does not need the cast, any compiler complaining about that is
braindamaged (or not ANSI compliant :-)
--
Sincerely,                 berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
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