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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint on malloc calls
Message-ID: <289@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 10 Sep 88 19:09:45 GMT
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Reply-To: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego
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In article <660017@hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>>
>>	phone.c(61): warning: illegal pointer combination
>>	phone.c(61): warning: possible pointer alignment problem

>A possible workaround to pacify your lint:
>Declare malloc as
>   double *malloc();

This is most preverse.  The point of trying to pacify lint is to make your
code portable.  You are proposing turning portable code into
non-portable code to pacify lint.
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu