Re: IS this a proper way of freeing memory with free()

Richard Heathfield wrote:
Ian Collins said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

Ian Collins said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

Yevgen Muntyan said:

It's easy to write lot of C code which is valid C++. You have to
apply casts to return value of malloc though.

It's *pointless* to write lots of C code which is valid C++. [...]

It's not pointless if you are using C++ for hardware simulations to
test your C drivers.

If you're using C++ for the hardware simulations, you're using C++,
not C.

The driver code is C.

Fine, in which case it isn't C++, so you don't need the cast on malloc.

I'm not sure if you are being deliberately obtuse.

My point is there is sometimes value in having C code which is valid
C++. The driver code in question is compiled as C for the embedded
target, but compiled with the host C++ compiler for testing in a
hardware simulator.

So the code in question is written in the subset of C that is valid C++.

--
Ian Collins.
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