From: brettk AT compusmart DOT ab DOT ca (Brett Kosinski)
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Subject: Re: arrays of pointers
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Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> wrote:
>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.

I thought I did that wrong... oh well, my C is a little bit rusty... (I have
to use Pascal in Comp Sci, so C has been on the backburner for a while now. :)

Brett.