From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malloc#Casting_and_type_safety
" Casting and type safety
malloc returns a void pointer (void *), which indicates that it is a
pointer to a region of unknown data type. One may "cast" (see type
conversion) this pointer to a specific type, as in
int *ptr = (int*)malloc(10 * sizeof (int));
When using C, this is considered bad practice; it is redundant under the
C standard. Moreover, putting in a cast may mask failure to include the
header stdlib.h, in which the prototype for malloc is found. In the
absence of a prototype for malloc, the C compiler will assume that
malloc returns an int, and will issue a warning in a context such as the
above, provided the error is not masked by a cast. On certain
architectures and data models (such as LP64 on 64 bit systems, where
long and pointers are 64 bit and int is 32 bit), this error can actually
result in undefined behavior, as the implicitly declared malloc returns
a 32 bit value whereas the actually defined function returns a 64 bit
value. Depending on calling conventions and memory layout, this may
result in stack smashing.
The returned pointer need not be explicitly cast to a more specific
pointer type, since ANSI C defines an implicit conversion between the
void pointer type and other pointers to objects. An explicit cast of
malloc's return value is sometimes performed because malloc originally
returned a char *, but this cast is unnecessary in standard C
code.[4][5] Omitting the cast, however, creates an incompatibility with
C++, which does require it.
The lack of a specific pointer type returned from malloc is type-unsafe
behaviour: malloc allocates based on byte count but not on type. This
distinguishes it from the C++ new operator that returns a pointer whose
type relies on the operand. (see C Type Safety). "
See also
http://www.opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc-devel/2010-August/014586.html
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* reduce to a few, supported functions.
* change all functions to take the debug level as parameter.
* use symbolic names for the debug levels.
* fix tools to pass "verbose"/"opt_debug" as ctx->debug.
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- Replace struct sc_atr_table / _sc_match_atr with
recently introduced _hex variants
- Rewrote _add_atr
- Introduce int type variable to sc_card_t, so that
every other card driver won't have to glue around
with this
- Card driver cleanups, optimize the number of
sc_match_atr called per card driver. Also
always try direct match with _sc_match_atr
first, before relying on eg. historical bytes
information on some card drivers
- Fixed a memory leak from the miocos driver
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building PC/SC, OpenCT or USBToken support,
use ifdef's directly in source.
- Because of above, add HAVE_PCSCLITE for winconfig.h
- Remove unnecessary includes for log.h, opensc.h and
errors.h in libopensc sources, they're already taken
care by internal.h.
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- Changed the case of GET RESPONSE in card-default.c to 2 short
- Added ATRs to Flex, GPK and TCOS drivers
- Changed value of maximum Lc in card.c to be 255
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- Changed call convention for reader finish()
- CT-API driver now frees its resources correctly
- Added year 2002 to some of the copyright statements
- sc_pkcs15_decipher() and sc_pkcs15_compute_signature()
now select only the parent DF of the private key file
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- Implemented a generic ATR matching helper function
- Made signing much smarter (should even work now)
- Added info about supported crypto algorithms to struct sc_card
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add support for e.g. CT-API
- renamed ops_data field to drv_data in struct sc_card
- copied coding style document from Linux kernel
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dynamically allocated with sc_file_new() and released
with sc_file_free()
- improved ACL's
- moved struct sc_card_error to opensc.h
- moved EF(DIR) parsing and encoding to dir.c
(encoding is not working yet)
- removed hst-test.c and filetest.c
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- default card driver now tries to do a GET RESPONSE
instead of SELECT FILE to detect the correct
CLA byte
- moved security attribute parsing from iso7816.c to card-setec.c
- added some more sanity checking to sc_check_apdu
- added 'debug' command line option to opensc-explorer
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