From: aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP Structs
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 13:35:12 GMT
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On Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:05:27 -0800, Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> wrote:

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

Now I'm confused.  I wrote a test program that did not cast malloc's return
value, compiled with -Wall -ansi, and did not get an error or warning.  I was
also surprised to find out that malloc is not declared in <malloc.h>, but rather
in <stdlib.h>