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Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function

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On 03/02/2012 12:02 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:
> 
>> On 03/02/2012 10:39 AM, ArifulHossain tuhin wrote:
> <snip>
>>> my_ds * ds = (my_ds *)malloc(sizeof(my_ds));
...
>> ds object of type my_ds, and &ds is a pointer to that object.
> 
> You've missed a level of indirection (or maybe just several words got
> lost from the sentence).

I did lose a level of indirection (without, oddly enough, invalidating
my conclusion). I posted a correction to my code, but I should have
corrected the text, too:

"ds is pointer to an object of type my_ds, and &ds is a pointer to that
pointer."

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passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function ArifulHossain tuhin <etothepowerpi@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 07:39 -0800
  Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function ArifulHossain tuhin <etothepowerpi@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 07:44 -0800
    Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-03-02 11:26 -0500
  Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-03-02 11:45 -0500
    Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-03-02 11:47 -0500
    Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-03-02 17:02 +0000
      Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-03-02 13:53 -0500
  Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2012-03-02 17:25 +0000
  Re: passing a pointer to initialized structrue in a function cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-03-02 19:40 +0000

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