Turbo C large character array
Evan Marshall Manning
manning at gap.caltech.edu
Wed Aug 1 01:29:32 AEST 1990
doug at ozdaltx.UUCP (Doug Matlock) writes:
>If all you need is a very large array, and you always plan to access its
>elements through a pair of indicies, I suggest you use the tack taken in
>"Numerical Recipes in C". A character "array" is defined as
>char **x;
>and allocated on the heap as
>x = (char **)malloc(num_rows*sizeof(char));
^^^^^^^^^^^^ try sizeof(char *)!!!!
>for (i=0; i<num_rows; i++)
x[i] = (char *)malloc(num_cols_in_row[i]*sizeof(char));
A char is rarely big enough to hold a char *.
-- Evan
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