If we are talking about the standard free function then its prototype is void free(void *ptr); Therefore the cast is completely useless. Now some speculation. The author might have forgotten to include the stdlib.h header declaring this prototype, so the compiler is assuming the return type of it as int. Now during static analysis of … Read more
I don’t know of a site that catalogs them directly, but one strategy that I’ve used on occasion is this: Find an old, small, unmaintained open source project on sourceforge Download it, get it to compile/build/run Read the documentation, get a feel for the code Use the techniques in Working Effectively with Legacy Code to … Read more
Merging will not be such a big nightmare as it will be when you’ll get 30000 LOC file in the future. So: Stop adding more code to that file. Split it. If you can’t just stop coding during refactoring process, you could leave this big file as is for a while at least without adding … Read more