allocate dynamic memory with MemHandleNew or MemPtrNew.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ender
> Wiggin
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 10:11 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: Bus Error
>
>
> but I need something bigger, say char[255] and when I do that the stack
> overflows, what should I do?
>
> "Richard Burmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:38183@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > > From: Ender Wiggin
> >
> > > ok, here are the class declarations:
> > > class TextFile
> > > {
> > > public:
> > > char* Body;
> > > int Num;
> > > LocationType Destinations[20];
> > > };
> > > class LocationType
> > > {
> > > public:
> > > char* Name;
> > > };
> > >
> > > > >well, I said this:
> > > > > TextFile File; //This is not a file stream but a regular struct
> > > > > StrCopy(File.Destinations[0].Name,"Forest");
> >
> > In the above, File.Destinations[0].Name is a pointer to char. It is not
> an
> > array that you can fill up with chars. Essentially, you are doing this:
> >
> > Char *pChar;
> > StrCopy(pChar, "Forest"); // error!
> >
> > This is very bad because there is no memory allocated for
> StrCopy to copy
> > the characters to.
> >
> > You could do something like this:
> >
> > Char pChar[7];
> > StrCopy(pChar, "Forest");
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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