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Pointers

A cast has been applied to the result of a call to malloc and this creates a pointer to an object type. However the amount of memory being allocated is not an integral multiple of the size of this object type. This is almost certainly an error.

For example: 


/*PRQA S 1278,1307,1336,2017,2211,3120,3198,3199,3203,3408,3602,3625,3631,3632,3672 ++*/

#include <stdlib.h>

void foo(void)
{
    long * ptd;

    ptd = (long *) malloc(11);                     /* Message 0697 */
    ptd = (long *) malloc(12);                     /* OK           */
    ptd = (long *) malloc(13);                     /* Message 0697 */
}

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