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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: dynamic mem allocation for structures
Message-ID: <7005@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 9 Jan 88 08:54:17 GMT
References: <3834@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3834@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> richw@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Rich Wagenknecht) writes:
>junk_ptr = (struct junk *)malloc( sizeof(struct junk));

That's the right method.  Two comments:
	(a) Make sure you properly declare malloc -- don't let it
	default to int-valued.
	(b) Ignore the "lint" warnings about possible pointer
	alignment problems; "lint" doesn't understand that malloc
	values are always pessimally aligned.