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From: rkl1@hound.UUCP (K.LAUX)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Dynamically malloc()-able pointers in a struct?
Message-ID: <2831@hound.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 88 14:12:46 GMT
References: <448@blake.acs.washington.edu>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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In article <448@blake.acs.washington.edu>, phaedra@blake.acs.washington.edu (J. Anderson) writes:
> 
> 	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
> 			 */
> }
> 

	Try:

#include	<malloc.h>	/* or whatever include file your system has */

	struct	xyzzy	s;

	s.foobar	= (char *) malloc (nbytes);

	if (s.foobar == NULL) {		/* don't forget to test for failure */
		/* Error */
	}

--rkl