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From: zen@dhw68k.cts.com (Gary Grossman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need large array on Think C.
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.230618.10338@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 1 Jun 90 23:06:18 GMT
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Reply-To: zen@dhw68k.cts.com (Gary Grossman)
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There's no reason to go through all that mishmash with an array of
pointers when C views an array the same way it does a pointer.

This is the simplest way I can think of to do this:

typedef char FOO[300];

FOO *buf;

buf = NewPtr((Size) 100*sizeof(FOO));

Then buf could be treated as a normal array, requiring far less space
than allocating an array of pointers.  I think the FOO *buf could
also be expressed as char *(buf[300]) but I am not sure.

Gary