JDBP>ZZ>
    >  > char *myChar=new char[20];
    >  > memset(myChar,0,sizeof(myChar));
    >  >
    >  > Oh, methinks I see!  The size of myChar is 4 because it is a pointer!
    >  > Where I was expecting 20... So I should have used sizeof(*myChar)!!!
    >ZZ>

JDBP>  BZZZT!  Wrong !  In this case, sizeof(*myChar) is 1, since myChar is
    >  pointing to a single character.

JDBP>  You cannot use sizeof() and dynamically allocated memory in this way.
    >  Either use a fixed-size array, or use a constant as the parameter to
    >  both the allocation and the memset.

JDBP>  BTW, ever heard of calloc() ?

Sure, but I always thought that the "new" operator was supposed to be
the greatest thing to be added to C++.  Did I miss something?

Michael Douglass
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