G'Day Lewin,
 
-=> Quoting Lewin Edwards to Frank Adam <=-

 FA> main()
 FA> {
 LE> char *local_copy_of_s=foo();
 LE> /* process local_copy_of_s */
 LE> free(s);
Yes, call it a week long brain fade.:)

 LE> But probably a better way is :

 LE> main() {
 LE> char *s=malloc(256);  /* or whatever */
 LE> foo(s);
Yes, this is what i normally do, but in this particular case only the 
function can calculate the size.Allocing here and reallocing there might
be a bit too much, but was an idea at the time(what's worse it didn't 
click then how to free it :))                  
 
 FA> Btw, i have thought about freeing it before returning, and it *seems* to 
 FA> work fine in DOS, but i don't know how safe that is. 

 LE> DON'T DO IT. It will probably work in DOS most of the time unless your
I won't, it was desperation that drove me to try it, and i was surprised
it didn't hang once..:)


  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
  
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