Yes - multiply all of your dimensions together, and allocate the space in one large chunk. But remember that just getting that much memory might cause delays also - but at least all your allocation would be done in one large chunk.Is there another way to accomplish this using fewer mallocs?
Remember that when you're working with arrays, you really just have a pointer to the beginning and an offset. Let's say I have a an array of chars:
If I refer to "string" it's just a pointer to the beginning of the array, and is equal to &string[0]. But when I try to access string[10] or string[20], it's the same as dereferencing the pointers "string+10" or "string+20". So you could allocate a huge chunk of memory with one pointer, and then work with various arrays by using the offsets. So given your example dimensions, you could access every element by adding 1 to the offset every time. You could access each 1-d array by adding 10 every time, each 2-d array by adding 30 every time, etc... Just be very careful with your bounds.Code:char string[80];
