From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: arrays of pointers
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 14:09:32 -0800
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Brett Kosinski wrote:

> Actually, I believe this is correct.  Are you sure you are malloc'ing
> the
> pointers before trying to access them?

Yes, it's correct.

> *tiledata[ptrNum][dataNum].dat <-- you have to dereference the
> pointer.

This is incorrect.  . has higher precedence than *, so this is
syntactically wrong.  What you meant is 

    (*titledata[ptrNum][dataNum]).dat, 

or more appropriately, 

    titledata[ptrNum][dataNum]->dat, 

which is what the -> operator is for.

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