Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > because then you would be allocating the size of a pointer, not the size
> > of a structure
>
> Whoops Jeff, you didn't have your coffee yet:
Whoops yourself. The following patch brings your example into line with
the driver code. mpuout is a pointer to a structure not the structure itself
as the malloc assignment clearly indicates.
*** x.c-orig Sun Jun 17 13:19:33 2001
--- x.c Sun Jun 17 13:19:42 2001
***************
*** 2,8 ****
struct foo { int a; int b; };
! struct { struct foo foo; } *foobar;
int main (void)
{
--- 2,8 ----
struct foo { int a; int b; };
! struct { struct foo *foo; } *foobar;
int main (void)
{
Now Prints:
8
4
4
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Bob Dunlop FarSite Communications
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