diff --git a/libtiff/tif_aux.c b/libtiff/tif_aux.c
index c39658cc..721d73bb 100644
--- a/libtiff/tif_aux.c
+++ b/libtiff/tif_aux.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: tif_aux.c,v 1.9 2005-07-28 11:35:12 dron Exp $ */
+/* $Id: tif_aux.c,v 1.10 2005-07-28 12:05:45 dron Exp $ */
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Sam Leffler
@@ -33,17 +33,17 @@
 #include "tif_predict.h"
 #include <math.h>
 
-char *
+tdata_t
 _TIFFCheckMalloc(TIFF* tif, size_t nmemb, size_t elem_size, const char* what)
 {
-	char	*cp = NULL;
+	tdata_t *cp = NULL;
 	tsize_t	bytes = nmemb * elem_size;
 
 	/*
 	 * XXX: Check for integer overflow.
 	 */
 	if (nmemb && elem_size && bytes / elem_size == nmemb)
-		cp = (char*)_TIFFmalloc(bytes);
+		cp = _TIFFmalloc(bytes);
 
 	if (cp == NULL)
 		TIFFError(tif->tif_name, "No space %s", what);