[Discuss] Casting the return value of malloc bad?

[Daniel M. German]

I guess everybody has different "techniques". This is the one that I
currently used, developed during my years as an IBMer:

int returnValue = -1;
MyType *p = NULL;

do {
    /* allocate memory and use a debug library to detect leaks */
    p = malloc(sizeof(*p));
    if (p == NULL) 
       goto error;

    err = 0;
} while(whatever);

  returnvalue = 0;


error:
  //clean up the function.. 
  // release memory.. etc
  if (p != NULL) free(p);

  return returnValue;

}



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