malloc要不要强制转换返回值

为什么80%的码农都做不了架构师？>>>   

对于这个问题，很多人肯定想当然的说必须强制转换之类的云云……实则不然，今天看《C语言核心技术》的时候明确说到

可以将一个void指针值指定给另一个对象指针数据类型；反之也行，这都不需要进行显式数据类型转换。

然后在c语言邮件组常见问题里发现这个了，原文是http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html，内容如下：

Q: What's wrong with casting malloc's return value?

A: Suppose that you call malloc but forget to #include <stdlib.h>. The compiler is likely to assume that malloc is a function returning int, which is of course incorrect, and will lead to trouble. Now, if your call to malloc is of the form

char *p = malloc(10);

the compiler will notice that you're seemingly assigning an integer to a pointer, and will likely emit a warning of the form ``assignment of pointer from integer lacks a cast'' (see question 7.6), which will alert you to the problem. (The problem is of course that you forgot to #include <stdlib.h>, not that you forgot to use a cast.) If, on the other hand, your call to malloc includes a cast:

char *p = (char *)malloc(10);

the compiler is likely to assume that you know what you're doing, that you really do want to convert the int returned by malloc to a pointer, and the compiler therefore probably won't warn you. But of course malloc does not return an int, so trying to convert the int that it doesn't return to a pointer is likely to lead to a different kind of trouble, which will be harder to track down.

(Of course, compilers are increasingly likely--especially under C99--to emit warnings whenever functions are called without prototypes in scope, and such a warning would alert you to the lack of <stdlib.h> whether casts were used or not.)

总结一句话，C语言中的void返回值类型不需要进行强制类型转换。(C++好像要，不然会报错)

ps:对于C中不转换会不会出问题或者警告，我测试了，没问题，环境是MinGW

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