lint on malloc calls

[Tom Stockfisch]

In article <660017 at hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar at hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>>
>>	phone.c(61): warning: illegal pointer combination
>>	phone.c(61): warning: possible pointer alignment problem

>A possible workaround to pacify your lint:
>Declare malloc as
>   double *malloc();

This is most preverse.  The point of trying to pacify lint is to make your
code portable.  You are proposing turning portable code into
non-portable code to pacify lint.
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps at chem.ucsd.edu