From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT c-o-r-n-e-l-l DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: problem with malloc and free
Date: 15 Dec 2002 16:03:46 GMT
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"Lars O. Hansen" <lars DOT o DOT hansen AT gmx DOT de> wrote in
news:athc08$l6d$1 AT news DOT online DOT de: 

> ok, hopefully this is it. *thanks*.   ... Yes it might have been this.
> :-) 
> 
> 
> So, I did  sth. like
> 
> int *a=malloc(sizeof(int)*360);
> 
> then I can access the 360th int element by
> 
> a[359] ?

Yes. a is a pointer to int. a + 1 points to the next int.

> A question (to Eli): after i corrected that mistake and compiled for
> the first time and run the program, it crashed again. then i compiled
> again and it didn't crash. then I compiled many more times to make
> sure and it didn't crash. I am working in A DOS box under Win 98.
> Could there be some sort of caching "issue" which makes djgpp use the
> not just saved file or WIndows to execute the not new compiled version
> but the old one ?

no.

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