A lint question

[Paul Sutcliffe Jr.]

In article <4881 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
+---------
| [ size argument to malloc/read is (int) on BSD, (unsigned int) on SysV ]
| 
| (Sigh.)  You can't always make the same code lint properly under both
| SVR2 and 4.3BSD because of this.  Damned if I do, unsigned if I don't.
+---------

Oh?  How about:

    #ifdef BSD
    #define SIZE    int
    #else
    #define SIZE    unsigned int
    #endif

    ...

    foo = malloc((SIZE)bar);

    ...

I realize that using the word SIZE may not be appropriate.  If you
agree with this, substitute your favorite word in its place.

- paul

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