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From: gregg@a.cs.okstate.edu (Gregg Wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shutting lint up about malloc (missing /*NOSTRICT*/)
Message-ID: <1994@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 12:27:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: a.1994
Posted: Mon May 18 12:27:18 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 03:46:50 EDT
References: <61@amanue.UUCP>
Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater
Lines: 32

in article <61@amanue.UUCP>, jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) says:
> 
> This is driving me nuts.  I can't get lint on my system to shut up about
> malloc.  In response to the following code:
> 
   ......
> 
>   /*NOSTRICT*/
>   if ((p = (struct foo*) malloc(sizeof(struct foo))) == NULL) {
>       (void) fprintf(stderr, "Out er memory, turkey\n");
>       return NULL;
>   }

Try making this

                                                          %%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    if ((p = (struct foo*) malloc(sizeof(struct foo))) == (struct foo *)NULL) {
        (void) fprintf(stderr, "Out er memory, turkey\n");
        return NULL;
    }

Comparing a structure pointer (namely p) against NULL (sometimes declared as
((char *)0) is probably biting you.


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Gregg Wonderly
Department of Computing and Information Sciences
Oklahoma State University

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