Re: Pointer refering to an array of structutes?

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"Robby" <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Igor, will your code work on raw C language, I have checked my
compiler's guide and as you must already know, "new" is not a valid
command, I only have calloc and malloc!

Doesn't change much:

S* p = malloc(100 * sizeof(S));
f(p, 100);
free(p);

1) S arr[100]; >>>> you create an array of "S" structures called
arr, right?

Right.

2) If you may refresh my memory, what does this line do? S* p = new
S[100]; ---Does it create an array of pointers on the heap?

No, it allocates an array of one hundred S structures on the heap, and
makes p point to the first element of this array.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly
overhead. -- RFC 1925


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