From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Why won't this program run?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 16:12:13 -0800
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Steve Chapel wrote:

>         int numlines=10;
>         input=(char **)malloc(10);
> 
> Shouldn't that be
>         input = (char **)malloc(numlines * sizeof(char **));
> as written, your program allocates 10 bytes, not room for 10 char
> **'s.

An array of 10 char *s, not an array of 10 char **s.

    input = (char **) malloc(numlines*sizeof(char *));

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