From: Thomas Knudsen <tk AT geb DOT gfy DOT ku DOT dk>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP structs
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:21:03 +0100
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On 5 Mar 1997, George Foot wrote:

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

 
... perhaps you should remember that C++ is a *strongly* typed language -
C is not, so Paul's assigning of a void pointer to a whatever-pointer is
actually allowed, as long as the compiler has a chance to know how to
convert void * to whatever *.

In other words:  C != (C++)-- 
;-)

Thomas


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