Hello,

I'm editing a piece of code, that is part of a big project, that uses "const's" to initialize a bunch of arrays. Because I want to parametrize these const's I have to adapt the code to use "malloc" in order to allocate the memory. Unfortunately there is a problem with structs: I'm not able to allocate dynamic memory in the struct itself. Doing it outside would cause to much modification of the original code.

Here's a small example:

int globalx,globaly;
struct bigStruct{
    struct subStruct{
            double info1;
            double info2;
            bool valid;
    };
    double data;

    //subStruct bar[globalx][globaly];
    subStruct ** bar=(subStruct**)malloc(globalx*sizeof(subStruct*));
    for(int i=0;i<globalx;i++)
            bar[i]=(*subStruct)malloc(globaly*sizeof(subStruct));


};
int main(){
    globalx=2;
    globaly=3;
    bigStruct foo;
    for(int i=0;i<globalx;i++)
            for(int j=0;j<globaly;j++){
                    foo.bar[i][j].info1=i+j;
                    foo.bar[i][j].info2=i*j;
                    foo.bar[i][j].valid=(i==j);
            }

    return 0;
}

Note: in the program code I'm editing globalx and globaly were const's in a specified namespace. Now I removed the "const" so they can act as parameters that are set exactly once.

Summarized: How can I properly allocate memory for the substruct inside the struct? Thank you very much!

Max