malloc returns int?

[Michael Poole]

Your program is buggy.  There is no prototype of malloc() in your
code, so gcc must assume that it is a function returning int.

John Giffin <gif@Henson.sandstorm.net> writes:

> using gcc v 2.95.2 on a freeBSD box,
> this program:
> 
> main()
> {
>   void *bar = malloc(10);
> }
> 
> returns this warning when compiled:
> point.c: In function `main':
> point.c:3: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
> 
> malloc should be returning void *, not int, yes?