Remove unnecessary casts on malloc return values

nmoinvaz · claude · Dead2 · commit b9a22d68bfee · 2026-02-17T17:29:13.000+01:00
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Entire-Checkpoint: 4161f7d0eb58
diff --git a/gzlib.c b/gzlib.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static gzFile gz_open(const void *path, int fd, const char *mode) {
     } else
 #endif
         len = strlen((const char *)path);
-    state->path = (char *)malloc(len + 1);
+    state->path = malloc(len + 1);
     if (state->path == NULL) {
         gz_state_free(state);
         return NULL;
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ void Z_INTERNAL PREFIX(gz_error)(gz_state *state, int err, const char *msg) {
         return;
 
     /* construct error message with path */
-    if ((state->msg = (char *)malloc(strlen(state->path) + strlen(msg) + 3)) == NULL) {
+    if ((state->msg = malloc(strlen(state->path) + strlen(msg) + 3)) == NULL) {
         state->err = Z_MEM_ERROR;
         return;
     }
diff --git a/zutil_p.h b/zutil_p.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 // Zlib-ng's default alloc/free implementation, used unless
 // application supplies its own alloc/free functions.
 static inline void *zng_alloc(size_t size) {
-    return (void *)malloc(size);
+    return malloc(size);
 }
 
 static inline void zng_free(void *ptr) {

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@`
`10`	`10`	`// Zlib-ng's default alloc/free implementation, used unless`
`11`	`11`	`// application supplies its own alloc/free functions.`
`12`	`12`	`static inline void *zng_alloc(size_t size) {`
`13`		`- return (void *)malloc(size);`
	`13`	`+ return malloc(size);`
`14`	`14`	`}`
`15`	`15`
`16`	`16`	`static inline void zng_free(void *ptr) {`