lint warning messages with malloc()

steve emmerson steve at umigw.MIAMI.EDU
Fri Nov 4 23:41:51 AEST 1988


I sometimes use:

    #ifdef lint
    #   define  malloc(s)   0
    #else
        extern char *malloc();
    #endif

Unfortunately, this means that lint(1) can no longer check the type of the
argument.  C'est la vie.
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