How to stop lint complaining about malloc()

[2656-Daniel R. Levy00000000000]

scottl at mercury.sybase.com (Scott Luebking) writes:

<One trick I found helpful to get around the lint/malloc problem is to include:

<#if LINT
<#define malloc(x)         NULLPTR
<#endif       /*  LINT  */

<at the beginning of the file or in a central include file.  When lint is
<executed, the LINT macro is defined.

Maybe this is a stupid question on my part, but... might this elicit complaints
about test of a constant (you DO check the result of malloc, don't you)?
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Daniel R. Levy
Memorex Telex Corporation
Naperville IL
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