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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need large array on Think C.
Message-ID: <1990May31.103925.13522@kth.se>
Date: 31 May 90 10:39:25 GMT
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In article <1232500002@ENS.Prime.COM>, J.COOK@ENS.Prime.COM writes:
> ========> forwarded message from eco8941@ecostat.aau.dk

> typedef char mytype[100][300];

>    globalarray = malloc( (unsigned long) sizeof(mytype) );
>    /*            ^^^^^^ use your favourite allocation routine here */

>    myarray[25][50] = 'a';    /* no overhead, direct in register */

This most definately won't work, since you NEVER have anything but
one-dimentional arrays in C. You'll have to go through the procedure
of allocating pointers to the various rows, and then allocating the
rows. I posted how to do this one or two days ago.

	Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+@nada.kth.se