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-hs- wrote:

> Why ? Simply because <stdlib.h> is missing, that implies that the default
> return type of malloc() is int (also the parameters).

That's wrong in C++, for C++ you *must* do a cast because void * -> char * isn't
allowed without a cast.
And yes, you could need to use malloc in C++, specially when you mix C and C++
code (libc is C).

SET

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