Re: Help with understanding this please

Mark McIntyre said:

mdh wrote:
may I ask why you
have not cast the return from malloc to type "struct t_node n *).

In C, you *never* have to cast the return from malloc.


K&R devote quite a discussion to this on page 142.

This is an error in K&R which the authors have acknowledged.

The discussion on p142 may be regarded as an error, yes. Note, however,
that the actual cast is not an error, merely poor style.

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