is it possible in visual c to make it unessary to have to this: char *stuff; stuff=(char *)malloc(100); i hate typing. why cant it be, stuff=malloc(100); ?? can it be, is there setting burried somewhere to change? I''m pretty sure other compilers are more relaxed about this.

Are you actually programming C? I have done very little programming in C, and so I know neither what its casting rules are, nor what Visual C++ is like for this. Visual C++ will presumably use C++ by default, and in C++, which is fairly strongly typed (a controversial statement, I suppose, but I regard C++ as strongly typed with loopholes rather than weakly typed in general), you cannot implicitly cast a void* to anything at all. But then, if you were using C++, you should/would most likely be using operator new ...

As for other compilers being ''more relaxed'', that''s not necessarily a good thing. Relaxed type rules can be very, very dangerous.

first there is no visual c (except its very old and i never heard of it). if you mean visual c++ its an ide and NO language.
malloc is declared as void* malloc(int size) or something, so i seriously doubt that other compilers will ignore those 700 something pages about how c++ is meant to work.

and what about int* bla=malloc(200) ? having to use the cast is a good way to remind the programmer he''s allocating 200 byte and not memory for 200 ints. if you hate typing that much you should actually use c++ stuff and not c. char* stuff=new char[100] should be short enough (and even here you have to specify what that returned pointer is supposed to point at).

stuff = malloc(bytes) is perfectly ok to use - google the comp.lang.c newsgroup for details.


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