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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: arrays of pointers - NOVICE QUESTION!( Be forwarned ! )
Keywords: pointers, arrays
Message-ID: <1170@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 5 Jun 89 09:39:32 GMT
References: <10971@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <17882@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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>	 * malloc below is implicitly cast to (char **), but this
>	 * depends on it returning (void *); old compilers need the
>	 * cast, since malloc() returns (char *).  The same applies

Hmmm. I thought that malloc() returned an unsigned long. At least
it does on the Motorola compiler from 1982 I use, under Unix sys V
for M68k-based machines. Can anyone who has more knowledge than me
clarify this point ?

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