From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP structs
Date: 5 Mar 1997 09:54:01 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire (ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) wrote:


: I have never explicitly cast a malloc pointer when assigning it. Even with
: my usual -Wall -Werror it never causes any complaint from gcc.

: Are you sure  this is non-ansi?

: mypointer=malloc(size);

I'm not sure what the standard says for C programs, but for C++ programs it
is definitely not allowed - try it. I was under the impression that ANSI C
was basically ANSI C++ without classes; clearly I'm wrong.

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