From:	Jukka Mickelsson <jukka AT mbnet DOT fi>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	How to use malloc?
Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:45:03 +0200
Organization:	DLC Data Link Connections
Lines:	23
Message-ID:	<34C89EDF.ACBAE798@no-spam.mbnet.fi>
NNTP-Posting-Host:	195.218.68.124
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

I have a problem using the malloc() function since I don't really know
what to do with it.
I have the following type program:

struct menuitem() {              // this source code is simplified
  char *description[25];
}

struct menuitem menu[5];

for(i=0; i<5; i++)
for(e=0; e<X; e++)
menu[i].description[e] = "testing";

The problem is that when X > 3 the program starts to act in a weird way
or crashes
sometimes. I probably should use malloc() here but I haven't got a
slightest idea _where_
and _how_.
Could anyone help?

- Raw text -