Re: Pointers (again)

[Kevin Sivits]

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, CyberPeasant wrote:

> James wrote:

> >     listy = (line *) malloc (sizeof (line));
> 
> No need to cast the return of malloc. 

Seems like casting the malloc return type is good style to me.  It has
helped me catch errors to stupid mistakes like:

  char *pointer;
  pointer=(int *)malloc(sizeof(int));


This is also required in C++ and makes moving old code to C++ eaiser IMHO.

Just my two cents on the issued.

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