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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help me cast this!
Message-ID: <7822@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 May 88 14:06:18 GMT
References: <294@fedeva.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <294@fedeva.UUCP> wrd3156@fedeva.UUCP (Bill Daniels) writes:
>How do I cast the malloc() in line 12 of the following program to avoid 
>the lint cries of "warning: illegal pointer combination" et al?

General, SVR2 "lint" will complain about casting the (char *) returned
by malloc() into other pointer types, and there seems to be no way around
it.  The best you can do is obtain a "possible pointer alignment problem"
warning.  That's because "lint" does not know that the pointer returned by
malloc() is guaranteed to point to properly aligned storage for any use.