From: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
Message-Id: <199703040100.LAA09129@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Subject: Re: quick malloc question
To: fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:00:57 +1000 (EST)
Cc: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <19970303.162642.7191.0.fwec@juno.com> from "Mark T Logan" at Mar 3, 97 04:30:10 pm
Content-Type: text

> >Why the HELL do people keep writing things like (char 
> >*)malloc(x)????????

> >GCC, and to my knowledge other compilers, allow any pointer to be 
> >assigned
> >to a variable of type void * and conversely allow any variable of type 
> >void
> >* to be assigned to any pointer, without casts.
 
> This is true, almost any compiler will allow you to do it without cast.
> However, almost any compiler will also give you a warning about it.
> Most people like to keep their code as warning free as possible, so
> they cast pointers.

I also have a lot of code which accesses memory as char's, int's and
long int's...it's nice to be able to tell which type of access I am using
from the cast I have in the malloc when I go back to old uncommented (yeah
yeah, I know) code... :)

Leathal.