c++ - invalid conversion from `void*' to `char*' when using malloc? -

c++ - invalid conversion from `void' to `char' when using malloc? -

- July 15, 2014

i'm having trouble code below error on line 5:

error: invalid conversion void* char*

i'm using g++ codeblocks , tried compile file cpp file. matter?

#include <openssl/crypto.h> int main() {     char *foo = malloc(1);     if (!foo) {         printf("malloc()");         exit(1);     }     openssl_cleanse(foo, 1);     printf("cleaned 1 byte\n");     openssl_cleanse(foo, 0);     printf("cleaned 0 bytes\n"); }

in c++, need cast return of malloc()

char *foo = (char*)malloc(1);

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