Re: Dynamic arrays

["Ken Hsu" <kenchsu@gte.net>]

dynamic arrays can be created easily in both C and C++ using the malloc() or
new

e.g.

char *ptrArray = NULL;

// for c++, use new to dynamically allocate at run-time a char array of 10
elements
ptrArray = new char[10];

// for C, use malloc() to allocate at runtime a char array of 10 elements
ptrArray = (char*) malloc(sizeof(char)*10);

also remember to clean up the dynamically allocated memory using delete
(c++), or free (c).


Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Main" <anime6@earthlink.net>
To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: Dynamic arrays


> You can change the size of a linked list.  Maybe it isn't clear to me what
> the application is.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dakline@vassar.edu>
> To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Dynamic arrays
>
>
> > Linked lists have the same problem as vectors, except they have even
more
> > overhead. I'm thinking of situations where I don't need that much power
> and
> > definately anything that size/memory intensive.
> >
> > >*Cough cough* LINKED LISTS *Cough Hack!*
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: <dakline@vassar.edu>
> > >To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
> > >Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:49 PM
> > >Subject: Dynamic arrays
> > >
> > >
> > >> Here's a topic that comes up all the time. How do you allocate the
size
> of
> > >> an array after a program has been started. I know you can change the
> size
> > >> of STL vectors but that's not what I want. I imagine it has something
> to
> > >do
> > >> with the char* format, using null-terminated strings maybe, but that
> won't
> > >> work for other data types, and the method behind it is mysterious to
> me.
> > >>
> > >> Would someone mind giving the topic a rundown for me?
> > >>
> > >> thanks,
> > >> SirFern
> > >>
> > >>
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