(void *) ? /* again */

[Kenneth L Moore]

In article <1990Jan22.103543.7116 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <21771 at unix.cis.pitt.edu>, yahoo at unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes:

=>Never use malloc() without declaring it as returning a pointer.  The 
=>cast you list will get rid of the warning from most compilers and
=>will not have any detrimental effect on the program.  However, 
=>removing the declaration for the malloc() can have a very bad effect
=>on the program on some systems. 
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Thanks for the tip. I guess I've just been lucky on our systems here.
(I've never had any problems on our ultrix, sun unix or VAX)


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