Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint warning messages with malloc()
Message-ID: <393@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 17:29:17 GMT
References: <142@cjsa.WA.COM>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I assume that lint is complaining not about the pointer returned from
>malloc(), but instead, about the alignment of the *z pointer which is
>a member of the structure.

Incorrect assumption.  "lint" doesn't know "malloc()" from a hole in the
ground; it has no idea that it returns maximally-aligned pointers.  This
might be considered a deficiency in "lint".

There is nothing wrong with the alignment of the "*z pointer".  Do not
adjust your set.

As one version of the "lint" manual page said, under the BUGS section,
"There are some things you just *can't* get 'lint' to shut up about."