diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 2cf7840..74bc942 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ John Shalf (NERSC/LBNL)
 Cristina Siegerist (NERSC/LBNL)
 Mark Howison (NERSC/LBNL)
 
-Please use h5part@lists.psi.ch for communicaion.
+Please use h5part@lists.psi.ch for communication.
diff --git a/test/testframe.c b/test/testframe.c
index a003c4c..34cf79d 100644
--- a/test/testframe.c
+++ b/test/testframe.c
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ test_open_objects(H5PartFile *file, int max_objects)
 				"at line %4d in %s\n", nopen, max_objects,
 				(int)__LINE__, __FILE__ );
 
-		hid_t *list = malloc(sizeof(hid_t)*nopen);
+		hid_t *list = (hid_t)malloc(sizeof(hid_t)*nopen);
 		H5Fget_obj_ids(file->file, H5F_OBJ_ALL, nopen, list);
 
                 H5O_info_t info;