From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Quick question about structures
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:27:14 -0700
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Temujin wrote:


> Question is: Each record in 'things' will change during runtime, is
> there a better, more efficient way to assign the bitmaps in the
> howdy[]
> over to the five[] array?  Like some way of using pointers or
> something.
> Such as things[0].five=gen.five  or something along that line, instead
> of
> assigning them by EACH individual record, by way of  /*linein
> question*/

You seem to want to have a dynamically-allocatable array, which you can
assign at whim.  You can't do this with normal arrays, since an array
name is not an lvalue.

You can simply dynamically allocate the space for the five BITMAPs, and
just point to it in the structure.  Ultimately, though, having to
manually copy five pointers iteratively is probably not worth
dynamically managing such a small amount of memory.

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