Re: Seeting malloc pointer to NULL [2] -Totally confused!!!!!

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"Robby" <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Okay, I have entered the code in VC++ and an error points to the same
line of code:

*obj_PASSCODE = malloc (sizeof (PASSCODE));

The error is:

c:\_DTS_PROGRAMMING\C_PROGRAMMING\c\TEST_4\Test_1.cpp(70): error
C2440: 'type cast' : cannot convert from 'void *' to 'PASSCODE'

malloc() returns void*. Unlike C, there's no implicit conversion in C++
from void* to other pointer types. If you want this code to be valid C++
as well as C, make it

*obj_PASSCODE = (PASSCODE*)malloc(sizeof (PASSCODE));

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