Re: allocating mem in a function and assigning a ptr to the first byte of that mem array...

mast2as@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I almost apologize to ask this question but I have been starting at
this code for a bit of time and don't understand what's wrong with it.
I am not arguing about the fact it's good or not coding, it's actually
a shorter version of something more complex that i am doing.

Anway the idea is that there's a func Test which takes a pointer to
void argument, allocate some memory, set this memory with some cotent,
assign the ptr to a void to the first byte of this new alloc memory
and returuns. Normally because our argument points to the first byte
of that memory array * AND THAT THE MEM HASN'T BEEN FREED *, i should
still be able to access the content of that mem array.

But i don't it crashes.

Please help,

cheers -mark

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <cmath>

no such header file.


//#include <map>
#include <string>

no such header file.

If your compiler didn't object to the above, you are using a C++
compiler, which is not a good thing to do to C code.

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Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>


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