From: "Matthew Conte" <spam AT someone DOT else>
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Subject: casting return of malloc()  (was: Re: Memory Access Problem)
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Edward Hill wrote in message <36A67204 DOT 5AF0 AT gec DOT nospam DOT com>...
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>  You shouldn't cast the return of malloc, it was orig used
>  to silence compiler warning messages but since ANSI/ISO and
>  the void * type it has become redundant and sometimes masks
>  errors.

Is this true?  It is bad practice to cast the return of malloc()?  I've
never seen this discussed anywhere else.

Thanks,
Matt.