[Sussex] Re: C programming help

[Thomas Adam]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:59:28AM +0100, Captain Redbeard wrote:
> Never mind, I spent TWO HOURS yesterday stripping an incomplete
> 1,400 line program down to 100 lines to trace the source of a
> "Segmentation error", discovered what the problem was and handled
> it with <blubber>five lines of code</blubber> only to then add a
> few hundred more lines, compile it, run it and get <drumroll>a
> "Segmentation error"</drumroll><boohoo />. I'm sure I'll be back once
> I've completed another bug-hunting session, oh, happy days!

This demonstrates a severe lack of understanding.  "Hacking" it in this
way is not going to help you in the long run.

> calloc()? That's a new one. Based on the advice I was given at the
> weekend I've been using:

man calloc

>
>    CoordArray = malloc ((sizeof (struct Coords) * MAX_COORDS));
>
> Is calloc() the equivalent or does it work different in any way?

It returns allocated memory for an array of n elements.

-- Thomas Adam

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