[cfe-dev] [ MallocSizeofChecker ] - False positive about MallocSizeofChecker

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>From this point of view, the warning should be emitted, after all, the use of malloc and sizeof is not standardized.

Thanks,
Henry.

<quote author='Raoul Wols via cfe-dev'>
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 03:23:10AM +0000, Wong Henry via cfe-dev wrote:
>     warning: Result of 'malloc' is converted to a pointer of type
> 'unsigned int', which is incompatible with sizeof operand type 'int'
>             ptr = (unsigned int*)malloc(sizeof(int) * 12);

I think it works perfectly correct here. There is a reason why the
common idiom is to use sizeof(*ptr) in this case.

Joerg
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