[PATCH] D33826: [clang-tidy] avoid pointer cast to more strict alignment check

Tue Sep 12 08:30:43 PDT 2017

aaron.ballman added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D33826#867155, @rjmccall wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D33826#866170, @lebedev.ri wrote:
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> > In https://reviews.llvm.org/D33826#866161, @JonasToth wrote:
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> > > There is an exception to the general rule (EXP36-C-EX2), stating that the result of `malloc` and friends is allowed to be casted to stricter alignments, since the pointer is known to be of correct alignment.
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> In practice, are there any malloc declarations still in use that return char* instead of void*?  I assume this does not complain when the source is void*.

FWIW, I've not found any malloc declarations that return `char *` instead of `void *`, but if someone knows of one, I'd be curious to hear of it.

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https://reviews.llvm.org/D33826