[Discuss] Casting the return value of malloc bad?

Paul Nienaber phox at phox.ca
Sat Jul 15 19:01:11 PDT 2006


Writing good (AND easy to maintain AND elegant) code that happens to use
dynamic memory allocation isn't exactly as "simple" as you may like to
make it seem.  If in doubt, post some of your C code.  I'll be glad to
show you what you, too, did wrong.

~p

Owen Stampflee wrote:
> If you need a helper library to do simple stuff like malloc, please step
> away from the keyboard and don't program in C, there is already enough
> exploit ridden code out there, we don't need more of it.
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