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From: phaedra@blake.acs.washington.edu (J. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Dynamically malloc()-able pointers in a struct?
Summary: is there a guru in the house? :-)
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Date: 24 Dec 88 08:37:05 GMT
Reply-To: phaedra@blake.acs.washington.edu (J. Anderson)
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	I have a small C syntax problem.  Given I have a structure of
with the following nature:

struct xyzzy {
	int plugh;
	long black_rod;
	char *foobar;	/* This wants to be a pointer to a variable-length
			 * array
			 */
}

	I have tried various means of doing a malloc which _should_ (I
think?) assign a memory value to foobar, but to no avail.  K&&R
doesn't have a lot to say on this subject, nor does volume 5 of the
Unix Programmer's Reference manual.  Is there a way to accomplish what
I wish to do, or have I found a minor limitation in C?

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