Thread: use of printf prevents segfault!

gcc 4.1.2 for i386-redhat-linux

What I really should have been doing all along, as laserlight eventually points out in another thread, was this

Code:

struct thestruct {
[...]
} *ray;
int main () {
     short int nofl, i;
     [...determine nofl]
     ray = malloc(nofl * sizeof(*ray));
     for (i=0; i<nofl; i++) {
          ray[i].member = whatever;
     }

Sorry for wasting so much time...like I said, bullheaded and new to C. But I did pick up some stuff along the way.

Incidentally, must ray really be a global variable? If feasible, make it a local variable. Also, remember to free() what you malloc(), and to check that malloc() does not return NULL before using ray as a dynamically allocated array.