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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: arrays of pointers - NOVICE QUESTION!( Be forwarned ! )
Message-ID: <10365@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Jun 89 20:00:10 GMT
References: <10971@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <17882@mimsy.UUCP> <1170@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1170@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>Hmmm. I thought that malloc() returned an unsigned long.

Maybe somebody's version had an (unsigned long) size argument, but no
malloc() implementation should return other than a "generic pointer"
(char* or void*, depending on the age of the compilation environment).