From: "Stephen Howe" <SPAMGUARDstephen DOT howe AT dial DOT pipex DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: *** OFF-TOPIC *** Re: ok, I have more info on problem at hand
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J-P <jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> wrote in message
news:8otati$ei1$1 AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk...

> I think we're going to end up violently agreeing with each other here,
> especially as implicit pointer conversion (bad due to polymorphism) hasn't
> got much to do with realloc().

Then you are to going to have nearly everyone in the C++ community
disagreeing with you. The reason you cannot do

int *p;

p = malloc(10);

in C++ is that it casually breaks the type system (void pointer being
assigned to another pointer). Of course it is ok in C because it has weaker
type checking. This was considered a dangerous hole and so it was removed.
You can find that in "The Design and Evolution of C++ by Stroustrup".  Of
course

p = (int *)malloc(10);

is fine in C++.

Stephen Howe