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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as MEM02-CPP. Immediately cast the result of a memory allocation function call into a pointer to the allocated type.
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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.3, "Memory management functions" \[[Summit 05|AA. C References#Summit 05]\] [Question 7.7|http://c-faq.com/malloc/cast.html] and [Question 7.7b|http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html] |
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