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From: jgb@linus.UUCP (Jonathan G. Bressel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: lint on malloc calls
Keywords: malloc lint pointer
Message-ID: <39617@linus.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 20:12:38 GMT
Reply-To: jgb@linus.UUCP (Jonathan G. Bressel)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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What is the best way of using malloc to get a pointer to a structure?
I am using the line below:

	nextentry = (entry *) malloc(sizeof(entry));

where nextentry is defined as

	entry *nextentry;

Running lint -bach yields:

	phone.c(61): warning: illegal pointer combination
	phone.c(61): warning: possible pointer alignment problem

What am I doing wrong?  Doesn't K+R suggest this on pp. 133-134 (at
the end of section 6.5)?

Thanks.
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