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Subject: Re: pointers to structs
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:08:48 -0400
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John Bond wrote:

> You need to allocate the list memory first like so:
> 
> list = (struct data_list *) malloc(sizeof(struct data_list));

Better:
   list = malloc(sizeof *list);

Remember to #include <stdlib.h> and to check the list after this call to 
make sure that malloc succeeded.