Hello Roger!

02 Sep 03 10:55, Roger Scudder wrote to All:

 RS> You need to assign the return value from test() to a pointer in
 RS> main().

Yes I know, I forgot to write, that i would avoid to use a pointer var.. I
can make it so it works, but it was just cluefull.

 RS> #include 

 RS> int main()
 RS> {
 RS>         char *ptr = NULL;

 RS>         if (NULL == (ptr = test()))

Quite space-sparing way of writing it.

 RS>         {
 RS>                 fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", "The test
function returned
 RS> NULL");
 RS>                 return EXIT_FAILURE;
 RS>         }

 RS>         printf("%s", ptr);

 RS>         /* it is now safe to free the block */

 RS>         free(ptr);

 RS>         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 RS> }


Looks like a good solution, thanks! :)

Regards,
Bo

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