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From: CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: array or pointer
Message-ID: <89321.113059CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 17 Nov 89 16:30:59 GMT
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If you knew that you always want to read 500 record of exactly 80 bytes, there
is no reason to dynamically allocate the memory.  It should be statically
allocated.  i.e.:

   char foo[500][80];

Note:  I used the words "byte" and "char" interchangeably here.  This may vary
       depending on the implementation.  Unfortunately, most of the compilers
       I've used don't have a "byte" type.