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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint warning messages with malloc()
Message-ID: <355@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 13:34:48 GMT
References: <142@cjsa.WA.COM>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <142@cjsa.WA.COM> jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small) writes:
>When compiling a program on an AT&T 3B1 (running SystemV.2 +/-), I am
>getting the following warning message from lint when I use malloc(3):
>
>	warning: possible pointer alignment problem
>[...sample code deleted...]

The program code is not at fault.  The problem is that lint does not
know about malloc returning a suitably aligned pointer, therefore
it complains.  You could do some fancy declaration footwork and declare

X *malloc();

for the file, but be careful that there are no instances of any other
malloc casts (including char *) within the same file.

Most folks just ignore this warning when issued for malloc.

Dave Hammond
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