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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: initializing array of objects
Message-ID: <2016@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 89 18:54:27 GMT
References: <1284@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <1284@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> rpj@redcloud.cad.mcc.com (Rich Johns) writes:
>class Foo;
>Foo** fooArray;
>fooArray = new Foo*[100];
>for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) fooArray[i] = 0;
>Is there a better way to initialize fooArray?

Try:
	memset(fooArray,0,100 * sizeof(fooArray[0]));
or:
	fooArray = (Foo**) calloc(100,sizeof(fooArray[0]));
Both are faster and generate less code.