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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint warning messages with malloc()
Message-ID: <361@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 7 Nov 88 13:21:05 GMT
References: <142@cjsa.WA.COM> <355@marob.MASA.COM> <1169@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <1169@microsoft.UUCP> tonyw@microsoft.UUCP (Tony Williams) writes:
>In article <355@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>|               You could do some fancy declaration footwork and declare
>|
>|X *malloc();
>
>DO NOT DO THIS.  Since you are using lint, I assume you care somewhat
>about portability :-).  There are machines out there for which
>struct X * and char * have different representations.
>On these machines, malloc will return the char* representation and you
>must have the cast to convert it.

Sorry!  My example should have shown conditional inclusion for lint only, e.g.:

#ifdef lint
X *malloc();
#else
char *malloc();
#endif

Dave Hammond
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