Help me cast this!
John F. Haugh II
jfh at rpp386.UUCP
Fri May 6 14:11:39 AEST 1988
In article <7822 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <294 at fedeva.UUCP> wrd3156 at fedeva.UUCP (Bill Daniels) writes:
>>How do I cast the malloc() in line 12 of the following program to avoid
>>the lint cries of "warning: illegal pointer combination" et al?
>
>General, SVR2 "lint" will complain about casting the (char *) returned
>by malloc() into other pointer types, and there seems to be no way around
>it.
my answer didn't make it out due to hardware trouble. however, while
banging on the problem i tried solving the lint noise. what i learned
was that if i declared
void *malloc ();
then lint shut up. this would seem to be the correct behavior for an
ANSI conforming lint. i did get errors concerning the use of malloc,
but those could be corrected by properly declaring malloc (as above)
in llib-c.
well, karl, what you got to say???
- john.
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