Why do I get a warning every time I use malloc?
You haven't done #include <stdlib.h>
.
You need to add:
#include <stdlib.h>
This file includes the declaration for the built-in function malloc
. If you don't do that, the compiler thinks you want to define your own function named malloc
and it warns you because:
- You don't explicitly declare it and
- There already is a built-in function by that name which has a different signature than the one that was implicitly declared (when a function is declared implicitly, its return and argument types are assumed to be
int
, which isn't compatible with the built-inmalloc
, which takes asize_t
and returns avoid*
).
Make a habit of looking your functions up in help.
Most help for C is modelled on the unix manual pages.
Using :
man malloc
gives pretty useful results.
Googling man malloc
will show you what I mean.
In unix you also get apropos for things that are related.
You need to include the header file that declares the function, for example:
#include <stdlib.h>
If you don't include this header file, the function is not known to the compiler. So it sees it as undeclared.