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From: richw@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Rich Wagenknecht)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: dynamic mem allocation for structures
Message-ID: <3834@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 88 14:30:14 GMT
Organization: Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN
Lines: 26
Keywords: MS,C,structures

Assuming I have a structure like:

struct junk {
	type element1;
	type element2;
}
 
(The elements in the structure are not important.)
And I have a pointer:

struct junk *junk_ptr;

How do I type cast my void pointer from malloc? The following doesn't seem
to work.

junk_ptr = (struct junk *)malloc( sizeof(struct junk));

Is the above statement possible? If not, any suggestions?

Thanks for your help,

-- 
Rich W

richw@rosevax.Rosemount.COM
Disclaimer: My views may not represent my own much less my employer's.