Help me cast this!

[Larry Miller]

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?
>
>main()	
>{
>	char *malloc();
>	int i;
>	struct outfile {
>		int j;
>		int k;
>	} (*output)[];
>
>	output = malloc(sizeof(struct outfile) * 3);


Probably seen 100s of these by now, but here goes:


% cdecl
cast malloc into  pointer to array of struct outfile
Warning: Unsupported in C -- Pointer to array of unspecified dimension
(struct outfile (*)[])malloc(sizeof(struct outfile) * 3);

NOTE the warning!!
And note that the cast is almost the same as the definition of output, only
the name is removed.

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