-=> Dominique Curtis wrote to Tom Torfs <=-

 DC>  TT> You really should include , instead of 
 DC>  TT> providing your own prototype for malloc().
 DC> 
 DC> Actually, no..

Actually, yes. :-) You can't just change prototypes at will, and still
expect the program to work (or even compile).

 DC> I have to include my own declaration because I am allocating memory
 DC> for a character array..

The way to do that is to cast the return value of malloc(); i.e.:

 char *p;
 p = (char *) malloc(n);

 DC> When I comment it out, I run out of memory very quickly...

Huh?

 DC> the standard declaration for malloc would be void malloc() or
 DC> something...

 void *malloc(size_t);

i.e., it returns a pointer with no type. You give it a type by casting the
return value.

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