How to store the returned pointer of malloc/calloc?

[themech]

Hi,

I tried to get an answer for this question in the Q&A section but had no luck. Hopefully somebody has a solution here.
I am trying to allocate memory for a linked list I need. Therefore I use calloc which should give me a pointer of no type. This is why I typecast it to (int *):

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#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void){
    unsafe { 
        int * unsafe pdata = (int * unsafe)calloc(1, sizeof(int));
    }
    return 0; 
}

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Debug error:
warning: C36258: pointer cast to type of larger alignment

Unfortunately it seems that an unsafe pointer has a different alignment. Has somebody an idea to implement malloc/calloc right, or how to allocate memory within xc?

[themech]

Any ideas or other solutions to implement a linked list?

[richard]

That message is just a warning and, in this case, it is safe to ignore. The memory returned by calloc is 32bit aligned so the cast is safe. Is the warning the only issue you ran into?

[themech]

Hi,

yes i think so I just wanted to avoid any nasty memory errors later on. Thanks for your reply!