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A cast has been applied to the result of a call to malloc but the type of the cast is not consistent with the type supplied as operand to the sizeof operator. Is this intended ?

For example: 


/*PRQA S 702,1307,1336,2017,2213,2216,3132,3199,3203,3408,3447,3602,3625,3631,3672 ++*/

#include <stdlib.h>

struct st {int n; char buf[20];};

extern int ia[100];

void foo(void)
{
    char      *pch;
    struct st *pst;
    int       *pi;

    pch = (char *) malloc( sizeof(struct st) );          /* Message 0695 */

    pst = (struct st *) malloc( sizeof(struct st) );     /* OK           */

    pi = (int *) malloc( sizeof(ia) );                   /* Message 0695 */
}

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