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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: what's wrong with this picture?
Message-ID: <3753@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 26 Apr 89 00:36:11 GMT
References: <13919@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <13919@louie.udel.EDU>, talmage@lti.com (David Talmage) writes:
> >   Ok, I give up.  Why does the following (example code for a doubly-linked-
> >   list) give the compiler warning "pointer/int conversion"?
> >   head = (struct aet *) malloc(sizeof(struct aet));
> >			       /* warning comes    ^ here */
 
> I think I can answer this one.  It just bit me last week.
 
> Try declaring malloc.  Probably like this:
 
> 	extern char *malloc();

Netter Talmage is correct.  People using small model (16-bit ints) can save
themselves a lot of grief, and all of us can suppress the warnings, with 
a simple:

#include <functions.h>

...at the start of every every C source file.

P.S.  Use AllocMem rather than malloc.
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