[Freeciv-Dev] Re: newbie C question

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Ben Webb wrote:
>       I think you mean ptr = fc_malloc(11 * sizeof(struct mystruct));

Yes, of course :)

> ptr = fc_calloc(11, sizeof(struct mystruct));
> if (ptr[0].ptr != NULL) free(ptr[0].ptr);
>
>       Assuming struct mystruct has a "ptr" member, that should work,
> since calloc zeroes the memory.

NULL==0 is a valid assumption across all architectures and compilers?

Yours,
Per

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