From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP Structs
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:05:27 -0800
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Also: no typecast is needed to assign the result of a malloc or calloc to
> a pointer.
>
> int *bunch_of_ints;
> bunch_of_ints=malloc (3000*sizeof(int));
> 
> will work just as well as
> 
> int *bunch_of_ints;
> bunch_of_ints=(int *)malloc (3000*sizeof(int));
> 
> and is more readable.

It will work, but it's not strictly-conforming ANSI C.  Converting to a
void * to any other pointer type requires an explicit typecast.

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