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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint on malloc calls
Message-ID: <8478@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Sep 88 11:52:55 GMT
References: <39617@linus.UUCP> <660017@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <660017@hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>A possible workaround to pacify your lint:
>Declare malloc as
>   double *malloc();

"The cure is worse than the disease."

"lint" should REALLY scream about incorrectly declaring the type
of a C library function.