From: dalgoda@ix.netcom.com (Mike Castle)
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [jason@txt.com: Re: Problem with "chars"]
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:56:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <go0nha.u6f.ln@thune.mrc-home.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020717123023.A2248@cs.pdx.edu
In article <20020717123023.A2248@cs.pdx.edu>,
Marius Nita <marius@cs.pdx.edu> wrote:
>It seems that this issue has become a religious thing, tho I don't see why. It
>is clear that the return of malloc need not (and must not--for correctness) be
>casted.
I believe it was necessary for pre or early ANSI C, so a lot of old code
written by some pretty smart people used it.
mrc
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Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-24 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-17 14:33 [jason@txt.com: Re: Problem with "chars"] xlp
2002-07-17 17:55 ` Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-07-17 17:55 ` Jason P. Winters
2002-07-17 18:07 ` Glynn Clements
2002-07-17 18:24 ` Jason P. Winters
2002-07-17 18:54 ` Glynn Clements
2002-07-17 18:16 ` Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-07-17 19:30 ` Marius Nita
2002-07-18 14:43 ` Earl R. Lapus
2002-07-24 19:56 ` Mike Castle [this message]
2002-07-24 21:05 ` Jason P. Winters
2002-07-24 22:38 ` Glynn Clements
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2002-07-18 7:11 Alvarez Alberto-AALVARB1
2002-07-18 9:25 ` Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-07-18 9:18 ` Marius Nita
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