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From: brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shutting lint up about malloc (missing /*NOSTRICT*/)
Message-ID: <358@tdi2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 19:22:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: tdi2.358
Posted: Fri May 22 19:22:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 26-May-87 00:55:22 EDT
References: <61@amanue.UUCP> <1994@a.cs.okstate.edu>
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Quoted from <1994@a.cs.okstate.edu> ["Re: Shutting lint up about malloc (missing /*NOSTRICT*/)"], by gregg@a.cs.okstate.edu (Gregg Wonderly)...
+---------------
| 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;
| >   }
+---------------

Even with the proposed change (casting NULL) lint -p will still yell about
casting malloc()'s result.  The document (NOT man page) for lint mentions
a -c option to silence this here, but /usr/bin/lint (which is a shell script)
contains a comment to the effect that lint -c is obsolete and unused.  (This
is System V Release 2, and actually lint -c produces .ln files.)

++Brando
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