Quoting David Nugent to Adam Fitzpatrick:



DN> A C++ compiler is required to *issue an error* (not just a warning),

DN> but a C compiler is broken if it needs the cast at all. 

DN> What I find a crying shame is that many programmers don't seem to know

DN> that C and C++ are two are different languages with some quite

DN> distinct and different syntax rules. What is even worse is that those

DN> same people often do use malloc() in C++, which is both silly and

DN> unnecessary.



[snip]



DN>Ergo, if you're a programmer worth your salt using malloc(), you must

DN>be writing C, therefore you don't need to type-cast the pointer it

DN>returns. 



I like the warnings actually, because I'm the kind of person who doesn't

like writing comments; little things like casting the type with malloc

make it a little easier to read my own code...



... I used up all my sick days, so now I'm calling in dead.

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