Thread: malloc Causes Warnings in MSVC++

I have the following code

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
	double *a;

	a = malloc(4*sizeof(double));
	free(a);

	return 0;
}

It produces the warning messages

warning C4047: '=' : 'double *' differs in levels of indirection from 'int'

I tried to cast the the value that a is set to by changing the code to this

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
	double *a;

	a = (double*)malloc(4*sizeof(double));
	free(a);

	return 0;
}

but then I get the message

warning C4312: 'type cast' : conversion from 'int' to 'double *' of greater size

Is it possible to code this so that MSVC++ doesn't give me warning messages? GCC never seems to gives me any complaints. If C++ is really a superset of C, why does this not compile with G++?