Re: why is casting malloc a bad thing?

From: Sidney Cadot (sidney_at_jigsaw.nl)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:39:38 +0100

Dan Pop wrote:

>>Not at all. For example, I do not have to rely on the semantics of
>>trigraphs, since I avoid them like the plague.
>
>
> You may still inadvertently fall upon them, if you're not extremely
> careful. E.g.
>
> puts("Huh??!");

Like for accidental failure to include <stdlib.h>, my compiler help me
by warning about such mishaps. And yes, this /has/ prevented mayhem once
or twice :-)

Best regards,

   Sidney

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