Casting void pointers

Question

I\'ve seen a lot of the following in older C code:

type_t *x = (type_t *) malloc(...);

What\'s the point of casting the pointer returned fr

Answer 1

What's the point of casting the pointer returned from malloc() since it's void *?

Quite the contrary. You need to cast a void pointer to an actual type before you can use it, because a void * signifies nothing about the data stored at that location.