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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: malloced structure initilization
Message-ID: <8894@alice.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 05:44:51 GMT
References: <202@sabin.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <202@sabin.UUCP>, bjm@sabin.UUCP (Brendan J. McMahon) writes:

> Simple problem - 
> How do you initialize memory malloced for a structure without using calloc,
> and without initilizing each structure element explicitly?
> Example --

> #include <malloc.h>

> struct foo{
>     int a;
>     long b;
>     char c[80];
>     double d;
> };

How about this?

	static struct foo init_foo;
	struct foo *fp;
	fp = (struct foo *) malloc (sizeof (struct foo));
	*fp = init_foo;

init_foo is guaranteed to be initialized because it's static.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com