Comment by unwind
12 years ago
Exactly! For some reason this anti-pattern is very thoroughly entrenched among C programmers and it's so very frustrating.
My other favorite is casting the return value of malloc(), something you see a great deal of and that I always oppose. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605845/do-i-cast-the-resu... for my best arguments.
Casting the return value of malloc is necessary in C++. I think that's why it's so widespread, so you can compile your C program with a C++ compiler.