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From: pete <pfiland AT mindspring DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Pointer Blues
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:51:00 -0500
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pete wrote:

> int **initarray(int columns, int rows)
> {
>     int x, **arr;
 
>     arr = malloc(columns * sizeof(int*));

>     arr[x] = malloc(rows * sizeof(int));

     arr = malloc(columns * sizeof *arr); 
and
     arr[x] = malloc(rows * sizeof *arr[x]);
are slightly more better ways of writing those lines.
since then all you would have to do, to change the function 
from initializing a 2 dimensional array of int,
to initializing a 2 dimensional array of anything, doubles for example,
would be to change:

    int x, **arr;
to
    int x;
    double **arr;

-- 
 pete