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From: crichmon@digi.lonestar.org (Charles Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: malloc()
Keywords: malloc, dynamic allocatino
Message-ID: <874@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 9 Aug 90 22:37:11 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.
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>   There seems to be something wrong with my malloc() call ... well ...
>   is dosent give me anything when I do it ... i do something like this:

.....

>   struct stuff *np;
>
>   np = (struct stuff *) malloc(sizeof(stuff));


The correct way to make this call is     malloc(sizeof(struct stuff))

                          instead of     malloc(sizeof(stuff))

See if this will fix your problem.


      Charles Richmond             crichmon@digi.lonestar.org