[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)

[Big Endian]

>On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:51:15PM -0400, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
>
>>  float ** test()
>>  {
>>	int x = 3;
>>	int y = 4;
>>	float ** f;
>>
>>	f = new float[x][y]; // Not sure if this is the right syntax.
>>
>>	return f;
>>  }
>
>test.cc: In function `float ** test()':
>test.cc:9: assignment to `float **' from `float (*)[((y - 1) + 1)]'
>
>is what I get when I try to compile that.
>
>However, f = (float**)new float[x][y]; works.
>Substituting you test function to my program returns:
>134519160
>134519216
>jdboyd at cs ~ 43 >
>
>So, it is getting new memory each time it runs.  Why in the world didn't I
>try that previously.  That would fix things nicely.

Ok... *PLEASE* stop creating arrays with dimentions from variables. 
You will fuck something up in the end.  Either make them variable 
sized float[][] and mess with the pointers, or make them fixed size 
float[4][4].

daniel
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