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Subject: Re: Trouble of using very large arrays
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:08:53 +0300
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"Martin Ambuhl" <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net> wrote in message news:c6bafb$a9mhn$2 AT ID-227552 DOT news DOT uni-berlin DOT de...
> Cesar Rabak wrote:
>
> > Brian Inglis escreveu:
>
> >  > this is cleaner and more maintainable:
> >  >
> >  > a = malloc(rows * columns * sizeof *a);
> >  >
> > This is not a good advice: you're changing the allocation of an object
> > of (rows x columns) ints to another of (rows x columns) pointers to int.
>
> You are, I regret to say, in error.  The type of *a is int, not
> pointers-to-int.
>

You are right. So,
 a = malloc(rows * columns * sizeof  a);


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