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From: steve@umigw.MIAMI.EDU (steve emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint warning messages with malloc()
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Date: 4 Nov 88 13:41:51 GMT
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Reply-To: steve@umigw.miami.edu (steve emmerson)
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I sometimes use:

    #ifdef lint
    #   define  malloc(s)   0
    #else
        extern char *malloc();
    #endif

Unfortunately, this means that lint(1) can no longer check the type of the
argument.  C'est la vie.
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