From: Jukka Mickelsson <jukka AT mbnet DOT fi>
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Subject: How to use malloc?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:45:03 +0200
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I have a problem using the malloc() function since I don't really know
what to do with it.
I have the following type program:

struct menuitem() {              // this source code is simplified
  char *description[25];
}

struct menuitem menu[5];

for(i=0; i<5; i++)
for(e=0; e<X; e++)
menu[i].description[e] = "testing";

The problem is that when X > 3 the program starts to act in a weird way
or crashes
sometimes. I probably should use malloc() here but I haven't got a
slightest idea _where_
and _how_.
Could anyone help?