Hi Bo! :-)

 JB>> another is not to allocate them but instead have them as ordinary 
 JB>> global variables
 BS> ?
From one of my programs:

static scene_t scene;
static element_t *elem;

scene is an ordinary global variable of size (sizeof scene_t) with no need
for dynamic allocation, while elem is a pointer needing dynamic allocation.
The reasoning behind this is that my program handles exactly one scene, but
that can contain an arbitrary number of elements. No need to allocate the
scene_t with malloc() in this case.

The decls are from a parser which only needs to handle one element at a
time, they are then inserted into a linked list in the scene when the next
element comes up - so I only need to have that one element_t pointer
available in the parser code, not one for each element present.

Ciao
Pascal

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