Comment by josephg

Nah. Malloc’s return type is a pointer. The memory pointed to by a malloc call is untyped. But the return type isn’t void. It’s void*, aka a pointer to unknown.

I’m mostly happy with implicit casts from void* to int* or something. But in this code example, we see an implicit cast from void* to int, casting the pointer itself into a number that might not even fit the pointer. This is rarely what you want. I’d much rather explicit casts in this case.