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From: desj@brahms (David desJardins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: NULL pointers
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Date: Sat, 15-Nov-86 22:32:13 EST
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In article <1696@ncoast.UUCP> kent@ncoast.UUCP (Kent Williams) writes:
>[...]  It seems supremely asinine that Microsoft C complains about
>
>struct nameless x;
>x = malloc(sizeof(struct nameless));

   Maybe I'm confused, but this seems completely wrong (you are assigning
a pointer to an object).  Do you perhaps mean

struct nameless *x;

?  If so, you should really write

x = (struct nameless *) malloc (sizeof (struct nameless));

as this is what casts are for.  It doesn't seem asinine at all to give a
warning about this.

   -- David desJardins