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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint warning messages with malloc()
Message-ID: <150@twwells.uucp>
Date: 6 Nov 88 20:57:45 GMT
References: <142@cjsa.WA.COM> <355@marob.MASA.COM> <182@umigw.MIAMI.EDU>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <182@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> steve@umigw.miami.edu (steve emmerson) writes:
: 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.

But you could do this:

#ifdef lint
static void malloc_kludge(n) size_t n; { n = n; }
#define malloc(x) (malloc_kludge(x), 0)
#else
extern char *malloc();
#endif

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Bill
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