From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP Structs
Date: 3 Mar 1997 16:57:11 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire (ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) 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));

Not quite true. Both work equally well in (non-ANSI) C, but only the latter
is compliant with ANSI C regulations (and hence C++).

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George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.