Comment by lelanthran

> I believe that is in fact the exact return type of malloc.

> You have to do extra work to type it.

Nope. Casting the return from `malloc` is a code-smell in C. You have to do extra work if you use `malloc` in C++.

> Hopefully that helps you in your battle.

Not sure what you mean by this - weren't you the one who dragged C into a conversation about Python?