casting void pointers

[Stephen R. van den Berg]

Roger A. Hurwitz writes:
>Even K&R 2d states that an explicit cast should be used with malloc(),
>in another part of the book (p. 142), but I am having trouble reconciling
>that with the above language.

malloc does not need the cast, any compiler complaining about that is
braindamaged (or not ANSI compliant :-)
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