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Why does some code carefully cast the values returned by malloc to the pointer type being allocated?

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Why does some code carefully cast the values returned by malloc to the pointer type being allocated?

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Before ANSI/ISO C, these casts were required to silence certain warnings.

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In interrupt-riddled code, it may be necessary to cast values to force the CPU to resolve pointer types.

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