Posted by Eian Counts on 2000-07-15
Frank, > The stupid thing seems to work today using either > calloc or malloc. Go figure!!! I am not totally sure, but for some reason I am thinking that calloc specifically allocates a sequential amount of memory where as malloc does not. Meaning, that memory location 2 allocated with malloc does not necessarily physically follow memory location 1. Make sense? This this in mind, if you were allocating a section of memory and then were stepping through it (directly with pointers), calloc would make sure that you could do that. Where as if you used malloc there would be the chance that it would work and that it wouldn't. I am not able to get any documentation at this point and so I can't confirm what I have just said, but I do tend to think that I am correct (for once perhaps). :) Eian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
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