From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
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Subject: Re: Dynamic Array - Need HELP
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 05:50:50 GMT
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Size of any pointer is 8 bytes? Surely it is 4 bytes?

Davin.

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:55:43 -0500, Mark Phillips
<umphill5 AT cs DOT umanitoba DOT ca> wrote:

[snip]
>well, because v is a pointer to a pointer, and the size of any pointer is
>8 bytes.  don't worry, your memory is allocated fine, it's just that since
>it is dynamically allocated, you can't use sizeof() to check how much
>memory you allocated.
>
>mark
>

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